Government “Gently declines past the peak of the 3rd pandemic…distance effect” (General)

The government evaluated that the’third pandemic’ of a new coronavirus infection in Korea (Corona 19) has passed its peak and has entered a modest decline.

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 the current epidemic has declined from its peak to a gradual decline, with the number of domestic cases falling to 800 in the last week.

The average daily number of local outbreaks in the last week (2020.12.31~2021.1.6) was 833.4, which was less than about 1,9 in the previous week (2020.12.24~30). In the case of the metropolitan area, it decreased from 708.6 to 574.4 over the same period.

Regarding the background of this decline, Mr. Yoon said, “Through preemptive tests (through temporary screening tests) and the’social distancing’ that the people are participating in, it is slow but effective.” Considering the spread of infection, the trend of decline in the future is expected to be slow and modest.”

“There is a trend that the amount of movement continues to decrease since the implementation of step 2.5,” he said. “The efforts of citizens have created a decrease in patients.”

The amount of movement over the last weekend (1.2-3) analyzed based on mobile phone data was 22.36 million in the metropolitan area and 24.14 million in the non-metropolitan area, down 5.2% and 3.6%, respectively, compared to the previous weekend (December 26-27, 2020). This is a decrease of 37.7% and 36.7%, respectively, compared to the weekend just before the increase in distance (November 14-15, 2020).

The government analyzed that risk factors such as large-scale group infections, transmission in nursing hospitals, and mutant viruses originating in the UK and South Africa remain.

“In the case of this third epidemic, since there are so many infections in everyday life, I think the rate of decline will be quite slow.” “If a large-scale group infection occurs, the number of confirmed cases is likely to increase again. It is important to minimize the chance of contact in life.”

He added, “It is also important to block and reduce the areas where group infections are still occurring in nursing hospitals and facilities,” he said. “Also, since the number of mutant virus patients continues to increase in foreign countries, how to effectively block these areas? It will be an important factor to keep the number of confirmed cases at a steady decline in the future.”

Meanwhile, Jung Soo-bon reported that as the government continued to expand hospital beds, the hospital beds are now available.

In the metropolitan area, the number of confirmed patients waiting for more than one day to be assigned a bed after Corona 19 was confirmed remained ‘0’ for the third day until this day.

As of the previous day, 177 beds for critically ill patients remain nationwide, of which 82 are available in the metropolitan area. There are 93 quasi-critical care beds nationwide, including 58 in the metropolitan area.

In addition, 8,243 life treatment centers (6,612 in the metropolitan area) and 3,88 hospitals dedicated to infectious diseases (743 in the metropolitan area) are available.

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