Jung Eun-kyung, the head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called for the participation of the public in the new quarantine operation in response to large-scale confirmed quarantines.
Commissioner Jeong said on the 7th, "We plan to change the quarantine response strategy from the existing preemptive and dense 3T (test-track-treatment) strategy to focusing on maintaining essential social functions while responding to the occurrence of large-scale confirmed cases and quarantines." In response to the micron mutation epidemic, "The transmission power is more than twice that of the delta mutation, and the secondary incidence rate in the family is also very high compared to the delta mutation." The K quarantine, which applies social control, has been neutralized.
Regarding the implementation of the new quarantine, Commissioner Jeong said in a regular briefing, "It is expected that the number of confirmed cases in Korea will rise from 130,000 to 170,000 by the end of February due to the influence of Omicron mutation, which shows high transmission power." Based on the characteristics of the mutation, the epidemiological investigation and home treatment monitoring were modified, and the shortening of the isolation of families living together was started. Regarding the Omicron mutation, Director Jeong said, “The detection rate in the first week of February increased rapidly to 92.1%.” The severity and fatality rate of the mutation is estimated to be one-third to one-fifth that of the delta mutation, but it is judged that the occurrence in the age group 60 years or older affects the seriousness and death." It has revealed its own judgment that it has not been weakened.
President Moon Jae-in said at a meeting of the Blue House on the 7th, "Check the need for supplementation while operating the Omicron response system, which has been preemptively reorganized and prepared, as planned." will be able to move forward,” he said.
The government has converted the compulsory PCR test fee for additional caregivers to inpatients' families to a fee.
Dr. Cassandra Pierre of Boston Medical Center's public health department warned on the 7th in the Omicro's Action Guidelines, saying, "Antibody obtained from a cure after infection weakens over time, so you should not think that protection is perfect."