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This is the news of COVID-19.
Today (31st), the number of new confirmed cases is around 70,000.
However, the number of patients with severe gastritis increased to 284.
From tomorrow (the 1st), the first day of August, the 4th vaccination for those in their 50s will start in earnest, and the system that divides home care workers into high-risk groups and the general public will disappear.
Reporter Kang Pu-reun reports.
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Starting tomorrow, the 4th vaccination once morest COVID-19 for those in their 50s who have made a reservation in advance will start.
So far, the 4th vaccination rate is 41% over the age of 60, and only 4.7% for those in their 50s.
Quarantine authorities said that the decrease in the fatality rate was due to vaccination and recommended additional vaccinations.
[백경란/질병관리청장/지난 29일 : “4차 접종 또는 3차 접종은 접종을 하실 때마다 추가적으로 중증화나 사망을 예방하는 효과가 50% 내지 70% 추가적으로 그러한 효과를 볼 수 있습니다.”]
The top priority goal of the quarantine authorities is to minimize the severity and death, but as of 00:00 today, the number of patients in critical condition was 284, the highest in more than two months.
It has nearly doubled from a week ago.
From tomorrow, the quarantine authorities will abolish the intensive care group system, which asked high-risk groups over 60 years of age by phone to ask regarding their health status by phone from tomorrow.
Like the general management group, the high-risk group has to visit a respiratory patient treatment center or one-stop medical institution to receive face-to-face treatment and prescription, but there are concerns that they may not receive treatment in time.
[이혁민/세브란스병원 진단검사의학과 교수 : “본인이 계속 모니터링하기가 나이가 드신 분들일수록 쉽지 않거든요. 괜찮다고 했는데 갑자기 쓰러져서 봤더니 코로나19 폐렴이 굉장히 심각하게 진행돼서 금방 돌아가시고 이런 사례들 우리나라도 꽤 있었거든요. 제대로 약 먹는지 확인해 볼 필요가 있거든요.”]
The government explained that it was a measure to accurately check the patient’s condition through face-to-face treatment.
He also announced that he would increase the number of one-stop medical institutions that can solve COVID-19 from diagnosis to treatment at once from the current 8,700 to 10,000.
This is KBS News Kangpurun.
Video Editing: Lee Sang-mi
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