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KMID : 1143420220150251759
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Public Health Weekly Report
2022 Volume.15 No. 25 p.1759 ~ p.1772
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Outbreak report of COVID-19 during designation of class 1 infectious disease in the Republic of Korea (January 20, 2020 and April 24, 2022)
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Ahn Seon-Hee
Jang Jin-Hwa
Park Shin-Young
Yang Sung-Chan
Ryu Bo-Yeong
Kim Na-Young
Lee Hiun-Ju
Kim Dong-Hwi
Yoo Myeong-Su
Kim Tae-Young
Kim Seo-Hyun
Kim Sung-Soon
Kwon Dong-Hyok
Shin Eun-Jeong
Lee Jong-Gul
Kang Ae-Ri
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Abstract
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As the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) around the world peaked in 2022 and has
continued to decline, several countries have eased prevention and control measures against In the Republic of Korea, COVID19 had been designated as Class 1 Infectious Diseases from January 20, 2020 to April 24, 2022. In consideration of high vaccination rate, introduction of therapeutic agents and the characteristics of variants, COVID-19 has been reclassified to Class 2 Infectious Diseases since April 25, 2022. Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) analyzed the characteristics of COVID-19 outbreaks during designation of Class 1 Infectious Disease in the Republic of Korea.
In total, there were 16,929,564 COVID-19 confirmed cases, including 31,828 imported cases during this period. The
incidence rate was 32,785 per 100,000 people and the maximum number of confirmed cases per day was 621,177. Severe
and critical cases were 22,137 and the case fatality rate was 0.14% with 23,045 death cases. Among all the cases,
9,084,961 (53.8%) occurred in the Seoul metropolitan area (Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province) and 7,812,775 (46.2%)
occured in areas outside the Seoul metropolitan area. Among the confirmed cases, 4,117,327 (24.3%) 18 or under 18 years
old, 9,812,940 (58.0%) were between 19-59 years old and those 2,999,299 (17.7%) were 60 or over 60 years old.
Through the lessons learned from pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions and public health measures for the COVID-19 pandemic, Korean government should prepare for the next COVID-19 resurgence will be caused by new
variants or waning of acquired immunity as time passed.
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KEYWORD
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Incidence rate, Case fatality rate
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