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KMID : 1143420200130282047
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Public Health Weekly Report
2020 Volume.13 No. 28 p.2047 ~ p.2058
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The primary report of clinical data analysis on the COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea
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Lee Jung-Hyun
Lim Do-Sang
Hong Sung-Ok
Park Mi-Jin
Kim Gee-Hyuk
Lim Nam-Kyoo
Lee Seon-Young
Park Jae-Kyung
Song Dae-Sub
Chai Hee-Youl
Kim Sung-Soon
Lee Yeon-Kyeng
Lee Yeon-Kyeng
Park Hyun-Young
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Abstract
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This is a COVID-19 analysis report based on the clinical data of confirmed cases reported to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) according to the INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION ACT. This primary report includes 8,976 confirmed cases whose additional data such as medical recodes have been checked among cases that were released fromquarantine or died by April 30, 2020.
This report used the medical records data from hospitals collected by the Central Disease Control Headquarters in cooperation with the Korean Health Information Management Association and the National Medical Center, and for those
who were not hospitalized, we used the data collected by public health centers and living treatment centers. The data included basic characteristics, symptoms at admission, and clinical severity of confirmed cases. The clinical severity of confirmed cases that were not hospitalized and released fromquarantinewas consideredmild.
As a result of the analysis, 62% of all confirmed cases were hospitalized, 36% were in living treatment centers, and 2% were quarantined at home 40%of the total were male and 60% were female, and those in their 20s and 30s accounted for 38% of the total, and those in their 40s and 50s accounted for 33% of the total. This report checked 12 major symptoms related to COVID-19 at admission. 73% of hospitalized cases had more than one symptom, whereas 35% of cases in living treatment centers had more than one symptom. During quarantine, 9.1% of the cases whose clinical severity has been checked required oxygen therapy or more, and this proportion rapidly increased in cases 50 years of age or older. The
proportion of severe caseswas higher inmen than inwomen (11%formen and8%forwomen), and the proportionwas high
among cases with underlying diseases. A total of 238 cases were deceased (2.7%of total), and 78%of thosewho died were
over 70 years of age. On the other hand, the average length of stay for those who were hospitalized was 20.7 days, and the average length of stay for thosewho were hospitalized and needed oxygen therapy ormorewas 23.7 days.
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KEYWORD
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2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19), Symptom, Clinical severity
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