According to UBIST, a drug research institute, on the 14th, the amount of outpatient prescriptions for flu treatments in the third quarter was only 7.97 million won. It fell 31.1% year-on-year. It decreased by 75.2% from the same period two years ago.

The flu treatment market has been prescribing less than 100 million won for six consecutive quarters since the second quarter of last year. The market size has been insignificant since it plunged 99.8% to around 10 million won in the second quarter after hitting 8.4 billion won in the first quarter of last year. The prescription amount in the fourth quarter of last year and the first quarter of this year, which are flu epidemic seasons, was only 20 million wo