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Background: Since the first confirmation patient of COVID-19 who traveled Wuhan China was reported on January 20 2020, COVID-19 infection has been ramped up during February and March in Republic of Korea.
Objectives: This study aimed to provide information on characteristics of first 2 months of COVID-19 prevalence in Korea and tried to figure out preliminary evidence from various sources in this unclear situation.
Methods: We used public data available from Korea Center for Disease Control & Prevention (KCDC) and situation reports from World Health Organization (WHO) from February to 24 March. For additional information, health utilization data from OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) was used for subgroup analysis. A proportion meta-analysis performed.
And we searched literature from PubMed, KoreaMed and CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) for identifying epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 and treatment strategies, and monitored domestic and global disease control institutions’ recommendations. The search result and reports have been updated every 2 weeks.
Results: In Korea, the ratio of confirmed cases divided into two groups that occurrence of large cluster infection explosion on 16 February from a religious group called Shincheonji Church. After the global pandemic announcement of WHO on 11 March, 2020, the fertility rate of COVID-19 seems to be related on bed numbers of 1,000 population and hospital numbers. From the literature review, we identified strong reproduction rate, asymptomatic period or infection, rate of exacerbated and current treatment.
Conclusions: COVID-19 pandemic in Korea was inevitable but the early explosion of infection shows deduction curve afforded by the rigorous tracing, widespread testing and acceptable health
Patient or healthcare consumer involvement: None
Objectives: This study aimed to provide information on characteristics of first 2 months of COVID-19 prevalence in Korea and tried to figure out preliminary evidence from various sources in this unclear situation.
Methods: We used public data available from Korea Center for Disease Control & Prevention (KCDC) and situation reports from World Health Organization (WHO) from February to 24 March. For additional information, health utilization data from OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) was used for subgroup analysis. A proportion meta-analysis performed.
And we searched literature from PubMed, KoreaMed and CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) for identifying epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 and treatment strategies, and monitored domestic and global disease control institutions’ recommendations. The search result and reports have been updated every 2 weeks.
Results: In Korea, the ratio of confirmed cases divided into two groups that occurrence of large cluster infection explosion on 16 February from a religious group called Shincheonji Church. After the global pandemic announcement of WHO on 11 March, 2020, the fertility rate of COVID-19 seems to be related on bed numbers of 1,000 population and hospital numbers. From the literature review, we identified strong reproduction rate, asymptomatic period or infection, rate of exacerbated and current treatment.
Conclusions: COVID-19 pandemic in Korea was inevitable but the early explosion of infection shows deduction curve afforded by the rigorous tracing, widespread testing and acceptable health
Patient or healthcare consumer involvement: None