While the spread of the Corona 19 winter resurgence has slowed down somewhat, the number of new confirmed cases on the 8th recorded mid-40,000.
The Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters announced that as of 0:00 today (8th), the number of corona19 confirmed cases increased by 46,766.
There are 7,041 fewer than the previous day, 10,735 from a week ago, and 11,645 from two weeks ago, and the number of confirmed cases is clearly on the decline.
Among the new confirmed cases, 132 cases were imported from abroad, a decrease of 87 from the previous day, but 103, or 78%, of new imported cases were those who entered the country from China.
Looking at trends such as the decrease in confirmed cases, it seems that at least two of the four indicators presented by the government as conditions for lifting the indoor mask duty have been met.
On the 23rd of last month, at the time of the announcement of the mandatory adjustment of wearing masks, the government presented four indicators as a condition for converting to recommendations: ▲ Stabilization of patient occurrence ▲ Reduction of severe cases and deaths ▲ Stable medical response capacity ▲ Acquisition of immunity in high-risk groups, and two of these indicators When the ideals are met, it was announced that the first stage of duty release would be carried out after discussions with the major script.
The individual criteria that serve as reference values are specifically: ▲ Weekly patient occurrence decreased for more than 2 weeks in a row ▲ Weekly new critically ill patients decreased compared to the previous week Weekly fatality rate 0.10% or less ▲ Can be mobilized within 4 weeks Critical care bed availability 50% or more ▲ Winter additional vaccination rate Elderly 50%, more than 60% of facilities vulnerable to infection, etc.
According to this standard, the recent situation has met the standard for mandatory mask.
However, as the Corona 19 epidemic is spreading in China, Chinese variables are expected to face difficulties in daily recovery until the last minute.
Bang Dae-bon said, "We plan to discuss whether to implement the first-stage adjustment by comprehensively reviewing whether the mask-wearing obligation adjustment index is met, as well as the domestic impact of new mutations and the spread of overseas infections."