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Volume 30, Number 6—June 2024
Research

Trends in Nationally Notifiable Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals during COVID-19 Pandemic, South Korea

Taehee Chang, Sung-il Cho, Dae sung Yoo, and Kyung-Duk MinComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea (T. Chang, S. Cho); Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul (S. Cho); Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea (D. Yoo); Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea (K.-D. Min)

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Table 2

Weekly average incidences of diseases included in study of trends in nationally notifiable infectious diseases in humans and animals during COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea*

Disease 2016–2019 2020–2021
Overall Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5
Human, cases/1 million population
Respiratory diseases
Varicella 30.11 12.09 25.76 9.29 9.31 8.27 7.81
Pertussis 0.18 0.05 0.17 0.03 0.01 0.01 0.01
Mumps 6.95 4.00 3.89 4.28 4.34 3.29 4.21
Invasive pneumococcal disease 0.21 0.13 0.28 0.11 0.08 0.1 0.1
Scarlet fever 5.57 0.80 2.12 0.76 0.59 0.34 0.21
Tuberculosis 13.13 9.16 10.02 9.17 9.31 8.94 8.34
Gastrointestinal or enteroviral diseases
Typhoid 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.05 0.04 0.02 0.03
Shigellosis 0.02 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.01 0.01 0.01
Hepatitis A 3.02 1.91 1.37 1.58 1.59 2.48 2.53
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
 0.05
 0.12
 0.04
 0.23
 0.21
 0.06
 0.06
Veterinary, cases/100,000 animals
Bovine tuberculosis 2.19 1.29 1.04 1.82 1.43 1.27 0.91
Bovine brucellosis 0.49 0.61 0.41 0.51 0.55 0.83 0.74

*Detailed information on social distancing policies is provided in Appendix 1 Tables 2–4. Phase 1, border screening policies, February 20–March 21, 2020; phase 2, enhanced social distancing, March 22–June 27, 2020; phase 3, social distancing level 1, June 28–August 22, 2020; phase 4, social distancing level 2, August 23, 2020–July 26, 2021; phase 5, social distancing level 4, July 27–December 31, 2021.

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