The outpatient prescription market also fluctuated two years after the landing of COVID-19. Sales in the pharmaceutical market, which is mainly used for infectious diseases such as influenza (flu) treatments, antibiotics, and expectorants, have decreased significantly. The flu treatment market has virtually disappeared.

According to UBIST on the 24th, the amount of outpatient prescriptions for flu treatments last year was only 46 million won. It decreased 99.5% in a year from 8.8 billion won in 2020. Compared to 22.5 billion won in 2019, two years ago, the market size decreased by 99.8%.

Flu treatment is the market where the most dramatic change has occurred since the spread of COVID-19. Aft