Although the corona spreading trend was broken once… The’blinking confirmed person’ problem still remains

Input 2021.01.07 16:47 | Revision 2021.01.07 16:54

The number of daily confirmed cases of coronavirus infection, which has poured out more than 1,000 every day, has recently decreased slightly. It can be interpreted as the result of fewer people going out and attending meetings due to a cold wave amid high-intensity social distancing.

As of 0 o’clock on the 7th, the number of new coronavirus confirmed cases was 870, an increase of 32 from the previous day, but it was less than 1,000 on the last three days. This year, except for two days in a week, it recorded three digits five times.

Yoon Tae-ho, head of the Central Accident Control Headquarters (Heavy Soo-bon), said at a regular briefing on the 6th, “The current epidemic is a time when it is gradually decreasing from its peak.” The number of new confirmed cases in Korea recorded 1028 → 820 → 657 → 1020 → 714 → 838 → 870 per day from the 1st, showing an average of 849.6 per day. Among them, the number of confirmed local outbreaks, which is a key indicator of the adjustment of the distance-taking stage, was 818 on average per day.

The quarantine authorities report that the Infection Reproduction Index, which is an indicator of how many additional cases of one confirmed person infect, has recently maintained the level of 1, meaning’confirmation suppression’. The amount of movement in the metropolitan area last weekend (January 2-3) also decreased by 5.2% from the previous weekend.

The 2.5 steps to social distancing continued to be extended, and the fact that meetings and movements were reduced due to the recent cold wave affected the decrease in confirmed cases.

Experts point out that there are signs of a decline in confirmed cases, but tensions should not be released yet.

Eun-mi Cheon, a professor of respiratory medicine at Ewha University Mokdong Hospital, said, “As the weather got cold, the amount of movement decreased, but the number of confirmed patients did not decrease significantly compared to the distance distance practiced for nearly two months.” It is too early to discuss,” he said.

He said, “In cold weather, people are less likely to go out of the house, and even if they have symptoms, they often wait while taking medicine and not be tested,” he said. “In that case, it can spread to family-to-family infections. It is necessary.”

It is also an anxiety factor that the rate of confirmed cases with unknown infection routes nationwide is high. According to the central quarantine countermeasures headquarters, out of 37848 cases tested at the temporary screening inspection center in the metropolitan area as of 0 o’clock that day, the number of confirmed cases was counted as 120. 26.5% of the temporary screening laboratories showed no evidence of the path of infection due to a large number of new confirmed cases.

It is also an important issue whether or not to block regional infections of confirmed mutant viruses in the UK and South Africa. The number of confirmed cases of the British mutant virus, which is known to be 1.7 times more infectious than the existing coronavirus, has increased to 11. One person infected with the mutant virus from South Africa also appeared.

Three of the recent overseas confirmed cases are from South Africa, where the virus has recently occurred, and the quarantine authorities are investigating whether the virus has mutated. There are also concerns that a 4th pandemic could come if a confirmed person out of the authorities’ quarantine management was released.

Professor Chun said, “Even if you get the vaccine from February, the effect will appear in April to May, so you should not put tension on the number of confirmed cases.” “There are concerns that the vaccine may not be effective against mutant viruses. No one can guarantee the future situation.”