There are many confirmed cases in their teens and 20s... Why don't you keep your distance?

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We will organize the remaining questions with Cho Dong-chan, a medical professional reporter.

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): I will show you what it was like when two mutations hit one after another in the past.

In March, the number of daily confirmed cases in Korea peaked at 650,000.

About ten days before the peak, the dominant species changed from BA.1 to BA.2.

This made the vertex higher and the vertex tail longer.

The UK switched to BA.2 when the peak of BA.1 broke, so there was a beekeeping.

If BA.2.75 hits and enters, the damage will be greater than if BA.5 comes alone.]

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): Looking at the age of recent confirmed patients, 19.2% were in their 20s. Most of them are teenagers, followed by 16.3%.

The reason is that your immune system is slowly being exhausted and you are active.

The purpose of distancing is to delay the surge in the number of confirmed cases by two or three months to prevent patients that hospitals miss and to lower the death rate.

In the long run, distance cannot reduce the number of confirmed cases.

When looking at distance and mortality reduction by age, it is effective from the age of 60 or older, but there is little below that.

The main target of distance is young people, but since it doesn't work, no other country in the world is taking out the distance card again.]

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): Yes.

In particular, BA.5 appears more clearly.

In the UK, where BA.5 is already prevalent, there are few hospitalized patients under the age of 65, but it is quite high after 65 years of age.

In Korea, 95% of fatalities and 85% of severe cases are over 60, so special measures are needed for the elderly.]

[Cho Dong-chan / Medical reporter (specialist): What is being discussed first High-risk groups are undergoing PCR tests at public health centers.

However, the public health center does not prescribe treatment drugs.

Early dosing was not easy.

Therefore, the Seoul Metropolitan Government is reviewing measures for high-risk groups aged 60 and over to be tested at a local hospital where treatment is prescribed immediately. I think the method would be good.]

(Video editing: Kim Jong-mi, CG: Jang Seong-beom·Eom So-min)

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