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The Health Department will review its provisional classification of COVID-19 under the Infectious Diseases Act, it became known Wednesday.
COVID-19 was recently classified as a Category II infectious disease, the highest point on the five-level scale of the designated infectious disease danger point. The ministry deserves to lower the classification of the coronavirus disease, informed resources said.
Inflamed persons with Category II diseases are requested to be hospitalized and not to work.
However, with a recent increase in the number of patients with COVID-19 with mild symptoms that weigh heavily on medical facilities and public gyms, experts put into tension the desire to restrict hospitalization to elderly patients and those most at risk of becoming serious. Symptoms.
A Department of Health Advisory Group plans to discuss similar issues and report the effects to the government’s task force on anti-novel coronavirus measures.
On February 1, COVID-19 was classified as Category II, at the same point as for diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS.
The designation also required doctors to inform public gyms if they showed inflamed people. Medical prices incurred by hospitalization will be covered with public funds.
Meanwhile, research suggests that the death rate in COVID-19 patients decreased as the number of patients without symptoms or mild symptoms increased at the time of the wave of infections, which would have in June.
The Health Department’s advisory organization will begin discussions on COVID-19 classification under the law on Monday, saying wisdom about the disease had accumulated, such as the fact that the elderly and others with underlying ailments have a tendency to suffer from severe symptoms.
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