key: cord-0879604-08efpohc
authors: Cho, Hae-Wol
title: A Long Journey Back to Normal Life
date: 2020-04-03
journal: Osong Public Health Res Perspect
DOI: 10.24171/j.phrp.2020.11.2.01
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doc_id: 879604
cord_uid: 08efpohc

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Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern on 30 th January 2020 [1] . As of 23 rd March 2020, a total of 294,110 confirmed cases (12,944 deaths) from 186 countries/territories/areas have been reported to the WHO [2] . The Republic of Korea has 8,961 confirmed cases including 110 deaths, and 3,166 cases released from isolation [3] . In an interim report on 66 deaths from COVID-19 in Korea, the authors reported that the case fatality rate was relatively low at 0.9%. Old age and existing comorbidities were risk factors for death [6] .

The last interim report dealt with the attack rate among contacts of COVID-19 cases. The secondary attack rate between January 24 th and March 10th was 0.55% (95% CI 0.31-0.96), while the household contact secondary attack rate was considerably higher at 7.56% (95% CI 3.73-14.26) [7] . 

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