Original title: South Korea’s home treatment of more than 1 million new crown patients will be an inflection point?
China News Service, March 7th. According to comprehensive Korean media reports, the spread of Omicron in South Korea has not yet reached its peak. It is expected that the number of newly confirmed cases in a single day will reach a maximum of 350,000 in the future, and the number of deaths will continue to increase.
Experts expect the peak of the pandemic to be determined around March 9, the report said. If the number of newly confirmed cases on that day is less than 300,000, it can be considered that the spreading momentum has reached an inflection point.
As of 0:00 on the 7th, South Korea added 210,716 new confirmed cases of new crown compared with 0:00 the previous day. There were 139 new deaths and a total of 9,096 deaths, with an average fatality rate of 0.19%.
In addition, as of 0:00 on the 6th, more than 1.12 million patients were treated at home in South Korea. Among them, there are more than 172,000 key management objects such as people aged 60 and over and patients with underlying diseases.