Recently, the Korean Red Cross Blood Services (KRCBS) announced that blood reserves, which lasted 7.5 days at the beginning of the year, are only 3.3 days left as blood donations have decreased due to the COVID-19 omicron mutation. This is far below the appropriate blood reserve of 5 days.

In addition, the number of blood donations this year decreased by 10.9 percent year on year. This seems to be because the number of people donating blood has decreased significantly as the number of confirmed omicron patients has soared, and group blood donation is also being canceled one after another. The fear of infection sometimes hesitates to donate blood.

The Korean Red Cross said that they understood the fear of the infection, but medically, people can donate blood seven days after vaccination and completely cured patients can donate blood four weeks after the full recovery. Experts also advise that there is no need to worry because COVID-19, a respiratory virus, is not infected through blood, and that there is no problem if people follow through quarantine rules when donating blood.

If there is a problem with blood reserves, serious problems may occur during surgery and treatment that requires a blood transfusion. It is time to participate in blood donation so that the patient's life is not threatened by lack of blood.

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