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■ 600 confirmed cases in 38 days
More and more confirmed cases such as Israel
丁 turns the arrow “violation of quarantine rules”
The domestic vaccination plan is not smooth
“I was impatient to relieve distance.”
Started supplying Celltrion antibody treatment
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As the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) has risen to 600, the embers of the’third pandemic’ are growing again. In the countries that started vaccination, the infection rate tends to decrease, but there are also criticisms that the adjustment of the distancing stage was hastily due to the delay in the introduction of the vaccine in Korea. In the midst of this, the controversy is growing when Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun said, “I am concerned about the weakened awareness of quarantine, such as some quarantine rules have not been properly followed.”
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO) on the 17th, the number of new corona19 confirmed cases in the world counted for one week until the 14th decreased by about 16% compared to the previous week. Vaccination was largely affected by the decrease in the number of confirmed cases. In the United States, where about 12% of the population has completed the vaccination, the average number of new infections per day is 91,000, the lowest since last November. In the UK, where the vaccination rate is 22%, the number of new confirmed cases a day has decreased from 60,000 last month to 10,000 recently. In Israel, the world’s No. 1 cumulative vaccination rate, the proportion of severely ill patients aged 60 and older has recently fallen below that of the younger population for the first time. In Israel, 90% of the elderly were vaccinated.
Of course, since the number of confirmed cases in Korea is less than 1,000, it is difficult to directly compare it with overseas circumstances. However, after maintaining the level of 300-500 for a week, and increasing to 621 as of 0 o’clock on the 17th, some experts are also concerned that the 4th pandemic is coming. In addition, the vaccination schedule is twisted, such as the difficulty of vaccination of AstraZeneca for the elderly over 65 years old, and the prospect is as rosy as in foreign countries.
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It is a difficult situation to come up with.
Jeong Ki-seok, a professor of respiratory internal medicine at Hallym University’s Sungshim Hospital, pointed out that “we should have secured the maximum amount of vaccines,” he said. “It was the latest and the earliest among OECD countries. Eun-mi Chun, a professor of respiratory medicine at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, said, “Without vaccination, the effects of distance relief and Lunar New Year holidays will appear from the end of February to the beginning of March, two to three weeks later.” In fact, out of 37 OECD countries, only four countries have not started vaccination: Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Colombia. Japan started vaccination from this day.
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Some argue that the government’s easing of social distancing was hastily. It is still a serious situation with hundreds of new confirmed cases, and it gave a signal to lower the alert. Professor Chun said, “We have recently adjusted our distance from the New Year holidays without considering the New Year holidays at all,” he said. “It is correct to look at the situation this weekend or next week and reorganize it.” Professor Jeong also said, “It was hastily to ease the steps to distance the metropolitan area,” he said. “It was better to apply rules that do not interfere with quarantine while maintaining the 2.5 level.”
In this situation, the controversy is growing as Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun made a remark that seemed to blame the citizens’ awareness of quarantine. Prime Minister Chung said on this day, “The number of confirmed patients who had been slowing down for a while during the holiday continued to increase and again in 39 days after the 10th of last month, again, more than 600 people. What is more worrisome than the quarantine situation that is walking on an ice plate is a weakened awareness of quarantine.” Pointed out. Prime Minister Chung also emphasized that “the government’s lowering of the distancing level was not intended to loosen quarantine, but rather an alternative that was devised after hard work for self-employed and small business owners to make a living while making quarantine more thorough.” However, the number of confirmed patients on this day reflects the current status of infected people before the Lunar New Year holiday, and on the contrary, the amount of people’s movement during the holiday season has decreased significantly compared to the Chuseok and New Year holidays of last year.
Meanwhile, on that day, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety approved AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to be shipped to the country. This is the final quality inspection procedure of the health authorities. The approval for shipment to the country was made 20 days after AstraZeneca Korea applied for approval on the 29th of last month. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety plans to complete the approval process after the first week of March for Pfizer’s Corona 19 vaccine, which has applied for an item license. Celltrion’s Corona 19 antibody treatment’Recyrona (ingredient name Regdanvimab)’ will be supplied to medical institutions from this day.
/ Reporter Kim Seong-tae [email protected], Reporter Seo Ji-hye [email protected]
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