[정치][현장영상] “Please cancel or postpone all private meetings for 2 weeks”

[앵커]

The number of new corona19 confirmed cases fell below 1,000 yesterday, and today it has reached the 600 level.

The quarantine authorities started a briefing.

Let’s hear how the quarantine authorities are evaluating.

[손영래 / 중앙사고수습본부 방역총괄반장]

We will start our regular briefing on Sunday, January 3rd.

As of today’s 0 o’clock, there are 641 domestic cases. Yesterday, 91 patients were confirmed through the temporary screening laboratory. Twenty patients died yesterday. We wish the deceased patient’s condolences and express our deep consolation to the bereaved families.

As a result of expanding preemptive tests and continuing to strengthen distancing, the spread of this third epidemic is hindered. Currently, it is judged that it is located at a fork in the state of a temporary peak or is gently passing the peak.

From December 27th to January 2nd, the average daily number of domestic patients in the past week was 931, down from 1017 patients in the previous week. The Infectious Reproduction Index continues to decline and is now down to around 1. Considering the effect of reducing inspection volumes on holidays and weekends, it is still too early to conclude that the trend has reliably turned to a decline.

Or even if it has turned to a decline, the rate of decline is expected to be very slow due to the nature of the outbreak, which has a wide base of community infections.

Here, a little more effort needs to be made to shift to a marked decline and accelerate the trend of patient decline. If the size of the outbreak in January can be reduced as much as possible, it is expected that from February, more aggressive quarantine responses through treatment and vaccination will be possible.

In particular, looking at the infection pattern for the last one week, the number of outbreaks has decreased to 28%, while the proportion of contact and investigation with confirmed patients reaches 70%. This means that infection is spreading through small meetings and personal contact rather than multi-use facilities.

That is why it is important to reduce meetings and appointments. We request that you cancel or postpone all private meetings for only two weeks from tomorrow to January 27th.

At the moment, minimizing contact between meetings and people is the most effective countermeasure to reducing the size of the outbreak.

I will explain the situation in response to quarantine.

Temporary screening inspection offices are expanded and operated not only in the metropolitan area but also in the non-metropolitan area. Currently, a total of 188 sites are installed and operated, and about 40,000 inspections were conducted yesterday. If you add about 38,000 tests at screening clinics nationwide, a total of 80,000 tests were conducted yesterday.

Thank you to all the quarantine officials in the field who are struggling day after day after forgetting to take a break even during the New Year holidays.

I will explain the medical response situation.

The number of patients waiting to be allocated for more than one day in the metropolitan area has decreased significantly to 10 as of 0:00 yesterday. Medical response is currently in a state of sufficient margin.

On December 13th, after establishing an emergency medical response plan in the metropolitan area to secure 10,000 beds, a total of 12,000 beds were expanded for 20 days, exceeding the target. We have secured more than the target values ​​for the life treatment center, infectious disease hospital, and critically ill bed.

33 life treatment centers were newly installed, and base life treatment centers were introduced, and patients who needed medical care such as the elderly or low fever patients who were waiting at home were admitted. Financial support was strengthened, manpower and supplies were provided, and participation of public hospitals and private hospitals expanded.

A dedicated hospital was designated as a base to provide rapid installation of facilities and equipment for the treatment of critically ill patients. In addition, more than 1% of licensed beds were secured as critically ill beds in cooperation with advanced general hospitals and national university hospitals.

We have also improved the efficiency of bed management by converting bed assignments from the existing local governments to direct control of the heavy water supply system and greatly expanding the number of personnel in charge of patient assignment. Separate beds were also prepared for patients with special conditions, such as the elderly, the disabled, and mentally ill.

Currently, it has the medical capacity to respond to 1,000 or more patients a day without major problems.The life treatment center can accommodate 7800 people, and the dedicated hospital can accommodate 2,500 people, and 64 beds for semi-critical patients, and a dedicated treatment bed for critically ill patients. There are 191 beds available.

We sincerely thank all the medical institutions we cooperate with and all the medical staff and hospital officials who are devoted to patient care in the field. We will continue our efforts to strengthen our medical response capabilities so that more sustainable responses can be made in the future.

We will explain emergency medical response measures related to group infection in nursing hospitals.

During last December, a number of group infections occurred in nursing hospitals, and areas where quarantine management was insufficient were raised. In particular, damage is concentrated in 14 nursing hospitals where the same group isolation was conducted, with 1,000 patients and 100 deaths.

Accordingly, the government has established a comprehensive improvement plan and intends to implement it quickly.

In the analysis of cases in which infection spread rapidly, such as Bucheon Hyoplus Nursing Hospital and Guro Smile Senior Clinic, infection started mainly through workers, and infection control was insufficient among the same group isolation. In addition, the fact that medical resources and all hospital beds were not immediately supported was an important cause of the situation. To solve this problem, we will first strengthen our initial response capabilities.

If a group infection occurs, we will not leave it to the local government, but will immediately dispatch an emergency on-site response team composed of heavy water and Bang Dae-bon, National Medical Center and infection experts to the site.

The on-site response team will divide patient types into confirmed, non-contact, and close contact, and thoroughly separate space and personnel to prevent cross-infection between patients.

We will provide medical resources to nursing hospitals so that you can receive appropriate treatment regardless of whether you remain in the hospital or leave the hospital. Even today, an emergency on-site response team, such as a doctor specializing in infection with Jungsubon Bangdaebon, has been dispatched to Gwangju Hyojeong Hospital, where the group infection occurred, to support on-site response together with Gwangju City.

In addition, the same group isolation method will be improved entirely. When a group infection occurs in a nursing hospital, both the confirmed and non-confirmed groups will be transferred to the outside and only homogeneous groups will be quarantined. If the outbreak of patients is large, contactless persons will be promptly transferred to other nursing hospitals.

We will use additional medical personnel for the treatment of the remaining patients in the future. If the patient size is small, the patient will be transferred to a dedicated nursing hospital or a dedicated treatment bed for critically ill patients, depending on the severity.

After that, the remaining non-contact and close contacts will be quarantined for 14 days, and caregivers will also be supported. All patients will take action as quickly as possible and provide sufficient support by securing care and medical personnel together. We will also expand medical resources such as hospital beds and manpower necessary for all employees.

General nursing hospitals and dedicated nursing hospitals are designated for each city and province, and hospitals that receive all patients will be actively supported through health insurance or loss compensation. In addition, we will provide support for medical personnel, caring personnel, and quarantine supplies necessary for the nursing hospital.

Finally, in order to ensure that those who have been released from quarantine after inpatient treatment can be smoothly admitted to general nursing hospitals, it is stated in the guidelines for release of quarantine that a PCR test for admission to a medical institution is not required. We will strengthen the rewards. Along with these improvements, we will strengthen proactive precautions to prevent group infections from occurring in nursing hospitals and strengthen management of workers.

Every week, a PCR test is performed for workers in nursing hospitals nationwide.

In addition, we will conduct a rapid antigen test for those who have met high-risk groups such as weddings or funeral homes, or who have been to high-risk areas, and then put them into work. In addition, as the number of cases of infection to the family increases, the family infection prevention rules will be added and guided.

We will also strengthen the management system and manage it closely. We will designate nursing hospitals and local government officials on a 1:1 basis, and additional provincial quarantine officers will be designated in case of a patient occurrence. In particular, we will establish a rapid response system for immediate communication between dedicated public officials, quarantine officers and nursing hospitals.

Based on these measures, we will do our best to prevent the outbreak of infection in nursing hospitals and minimize the spread of infection even after the outbreak.

Group infection continues to spread in the eastern detention center in Seoul, causing a lot of concern to the people and I am very sorry. Currently, the on-site support teams at Bang Dae-bon and Jungsu-bon are working together with the Ministry of Justice and detention centers to respond to the field. We will try to prevent further spread of infection.

From tomorrow, a two-week extended distance will begin. These two weeks will be an important turning point that will determine the Corona 19 situation this year.

Please cancel or postpone all meetings, appointments, and meetings with others only for the next two weeks. Always wear a mask and avoid meetings and places without a mask.

If it is a little strange, please get the test immediately. If we work together for only these two weeks, the third epidemic will now pass its peak and turn into a gradual decline.

If we can narrow the fashion by passing through this hurdle well, we can recover our precious daily life little by little. It may have been a lot of trouble so far, but I hope you will give up a little more for the next two weeks. The government will also devote all its power to restore the daily lives of the people. Thank you.