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COVID-19 Infection in South Korea: Focusing on Age Distribution of Confirmed Cases

Author(s) -

Hyunjoo Joo,

Yun-Jung Kang

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of pure and applied microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149

H-Index - 16

eISSN - 2581-690X

pISSN - 0973-7510

DOI - 10.22207/jpam.14.spl1.08

Subject(s) - quarantine , covid-19 , china , social distance , distribution (mathematics) , disease , infection rate , demography , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , virology , geography , outbreak , surgery , pathology , sociology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , archaeology

A new kind of respiratory infectious disease, COVID-19, which first occurred in Wuhan, China, on December 31st, 2019, has affected all over China. After that, the first case of COVID-19 in South Korea was confirmed on January 20 th, 2020. Currently, on April 7 th, the accumulated number of confirmed cases is 10,331, with 6,694 among them released from quarantine. Age distributions among the confirmed cases shows that patients between 20-29 occupy the most portion with 27%. The younger generations occupies the highest portion of the confirmed cases. Additionally, as their high infection rate can serve as a risk factor of spreading the disease to their family members, they should actively participate in the prevention of the disease by thorough practice of social distancing. Their participation is expected to serve an important role in ending COVID-19.

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