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Although South Korea's recent progress against their COVID-19 epidemic gives hope that it is possible for community actions to dampen down the spread of the virus, it requires a level of commitment that a lot countries may have trouble duplicating.
Today's report from Korea's CDC indicates only 114 new COVID-19 cases were added over the past 24 hours, bringing their total to 7869 cases and 66 deaths.As noted yesterday, with the slowing in the number of new cases, and the inevitable, albeit lagging increase in the number of fatal outcomes, we are seeing South Korea's CFR slowly creep up. A week ago it was roughly .6%, while today that number has risen to .84% - or about 8 times higher than we would expect to see with a bad seasonal flu.
○ From March 8th to the present, 99 confirmed patients related to the call center located in Guro-gu, Seoul, and epidemiological investigations of infection paths and contacts are ongoing.
* 80 employees (53 in Seoul, 14 in Gyeonggi, 13 in Incheon), 19 contacts (17 in Seoul, and 2 in Incheon) (as of 00:00 on March 12) There are additional confirmed cases in the morning, which may differ from the announcement of local governments Can
-Up to now, 80 out of 208 call center employees on the 11th floor have been confirmed as confirmed patients, and 553 employees working in the same company but on different floors (7th to 9th floors) are first self-contained and subject to inspection. I plan to check the radio wave scale.
□ World Health Organization (WHO) Secretary General Tedros Adhanom Gevresu said on the 3.11 media briefing that 'Corona 19 was evaluated to be characterized as a pandemic' and that it was the de facto corona 19 worldwide pandemic. Made a declaration.
○ The Central Defense Countermeasures Division maintains the current countermeasures
* in Korea, which simultaneously prevents the spread of domestic communities and prevents further influx from foreign countries while preparing for a pandemic situation, but adds countermeasures in line with the changed situation at home and abroad. Said to strengthen.
* Combination of containment strategy and mitigation strategy such as rapid patient discovery and diagnosis, quarantine, treatment, and bed preparation
○ First, as the number of cases in which corona 19 is collectively increased in people in dense environments in closed spaces such as sports facilities and call centers, based on the guidelines for management of collective facilities and multi-use facilities, Prepare guidelines for intensive management of workplaces * to strengthen infection management by workplaces and facilities.
* Call center, karaoke room, PC room, sports center, religious facility, club, academy, etc.
-Each ministry prepared and implemented detailed management guidelines according to the characteristics of each work site and facility, and also conducted an on-site inspection of infection control to check whether the guidelines were implemented and managed continuously.
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