[현장생중계]Sohn Young-rae, Head of Social Strategy Team, Answers Prior Questions

[사회자]

We will give you a preliminary inquiry sent by the Ministry of Health and Welfare Access Reporter. This is the first pre-query. The number of confirmed cases has already exceeded the 2.5 stage, and I am wondering if we are struggling to raise the current stage or if we are considering another method to alleviate the spread. We also ask when we plan to apply the proposed distance reorganization that was under discussion.

[손영래 / 중앙사고수습본부 사회전략반장]

Head of Social Strategy Team, I will answer you. As you mentioned now, as we have entered the standard of distance 2.5 steps, we are judged as the point at which the current trend of prevalence is turning to an increasing trend. Accordingly, we will observe the situation of this week a little more, and we will make a decision in the middle of this week on how to adjust the distancing stage from next week and what quarantine measures will be further strengthened and announced. The reorganization of the new distancing system is being approached carefully considering the fact that the current epidemic situation is not stable. We are discussing together.

[사회자]

Let me ask you the second question. The transcript continues to introduce the preemptive inspection of individual municipalities as a best practice. Today, since December of last year, it is said that 36.2 million cases have been tested through the Temporary Screening and Inspection Office. Please explain why you think the number of confirmed cases does not decrease, but rather increases, even after doing so many preemptive tests. In addition, I am wondering if the plan is to continue expanding preemptive inspections.

[손영래 / 중앙사고수습본부 사회전략반장]

We believe that the effects of our proactively conducting preemptive inspections are clear. For example, the number and scale of group infections in nursing hospitals and nursing facilities are significantly decreasing as a result of conducting periodic preemptive examinations at the current nursing hospitals. In addition, group infections that occurred in factories with foreign workers in Gyeonggi-do and Chungcheong-do were tracked through a preemptive preemptive examination, and as a result, the current infection pattern has decreased considerably and is progressing.

The effects of this preemptive test are clear, but I think that the fact that the infection itself continues to spread despite the fact that the underlying infection in the community is wide and spread quickly. However, through these preemptive tests, I believe that preemptive tests should continue to be strengthened in that all the patients I have found so far could act as a source of infection that could cause tens or hundreds of times more patients without this.

In order to avoid measures to cut off all social activities through full re-blockade as seen in foreign countries, in the end, reinforcement of preemptive examinations, epidemiological investigations, finding and quarantine infected people as quickly as possible, and on the other hand, infection can be prevented through distance We have no choice but to actively pursue these three ways to soften the degree of spread.

In that respect, the current preemptive test is looking for measures that can be strengthened a little more. In this method, measures to expand periodic preemptive tests for vulnerable facilities, and when a medical institution recommends testing for symptomatic patients, the test is We plan to continue to promote efforts in various ways, such as ways to further innovate the inspection system so that it can be smoothly performed, as well as discovering new inspection techniques that can be inspected more quickly, such as self-inspection.

[사회자]

From now on, I will make an on-site inquiry

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