정부, 코로나19 재유행 대비 '호흡기 전담 클리닉' 1천개 지정 운영...4일 국내 발생 이틀만에 0명<br /><br />South Korea reported zero domestic cases of the novel coronavirus today.<br />As the country sees the COVID-19 outbreak settle down for now, it's gearing up for another possible outbreak in the fall or the winter.<br />The health authorities announced today that it will designate and operate one-thousand respiratory clinics nationwide to help to reduce the potential spread of the virus and not overcrowd emergency departments.<br />Yoon Jung-min reports.<br />South Korea plans to run around one-thousand clinics nationwide that exclusively take care of patients with respiratory diseases,... to prevent a second wave of COVID-19 cases when the weather gets cold.<br />At Monday's COVID-19 briefing, the health authorities said it will set a new system to provide safe medical services for people with general respiratory diseases or fever,... as well as keep them separate from other patients.<br />"The medical field and the government have agreed upon the need to establish a new medical service system to brace for a possible secondary COVID-19 outbreak and an increasing number of people with respiratory diseases during the fall and winter."<br />The clinics will take care of patients with constant fever, coughing or sore throats.<br />The government said it will first secure 500 clinics at local public institutions or health centers,... and prepare 500 more at medical institutions.<br />The authorities also plan to provide medical services over the telephone.<br />To help suffering hospitals and pharmacies,... the government decided to pay their guaranteed national health insurance wage support for June one month in advance.<br />The advance amounts to some 815-million U.S. dollars.<br />As of Midnight on Monday, South Korea reported eight new COVID-19 cases,... which were all imported from abroad.<br />There have been two more fatalities,... bringing the total death toll to 252.<br />34 more people have recovered from the coronavirus on Monday,... and the recovery tally stands at 9-thousand-217.<br />Yoon Jung-min, Arirang News.<br />
