Omicron has a relatively low fatality rate, but is a two-face mutation with very high propagation power. Today (25th), we will focus the news on ‘spread power’. The number of new confirmed cases is around 8,000. This is an all-time high. There is a possibility that more than 10,000 people a day will come out even tomorrow at the earliest. That number is likely to explode even more after the Lunar New Year holiday. The quarantine authorities even mentioned the figure of ‘30,000 a day’. It is an estimate that shows just how powerful the radio wave is of Omicron. If so, I wonder if our response is going well.
First of all, this is reporter Yuhanul.
[기자]
Even in inclement weather, people line up in long lines.
It’s for PCR testing.
As of 00:00 today, it was counted that 5 out of 100 people who tested for Corona were confirmed.
The positive rate of this test has been steadily increasing in recent years.
That is, there are many hidden infections in the community, so it goes up as the epidemic grows.
At the same time, the infection reproduction index, which means how many people a confirmed case spreads, also exceeded 1 in 5 weeks.
That’s because of the micron mutation.
[정은경/질병관리청장 (어제) : 높은 전파력으로 대량의 확진자가 급증할 우려가 있고, 그런 상황을 피하기는 어렵다고 보고 있습니다.]
The number of confirmed cases on the 1st day, when the weekend effect was insignificant, recorded 8,000 for the first time today.
The government expects to see up to 20,000 to 30,000 people next month.
When the peak will come, it is not easy to predict right now.
This is because of various variables such as compliance with quarantine rules, social distancing, and vaccination rate.
[손영래/중앙사고수습본부 사회전략반장 : 외국처럼 다수의 확진자가 발생해서 빨리 유행이 꺾이는 시나리오가 상당히 우리나라에는 맞지 않고 위험성이 있다…]
Therefore, the quarantine authorities are taking the direction of responding to the 5th pandemic while reducing the number of stomach and severe cases as much as possible.
As of 00:00 today, there are 392 patients with severe stomach and severe cases.
The government said it can handle 1,500 critically ill patients per day.
(Video design: Kang Aram)
