22,327 new COVID-19 patients… Growth ‘stalled’
More than 700 people from 1 week ago, more than 1,400 people from 2 weeks ago↓
The highest number of severely ill patients in 68 days since September 21st
44 deaths from Corona 19… 30,413 cumulative deaths
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The number of new corona19 patients has slowed to 22,000.
From today, advance reservations for the 3rd and 4th inoculations using the existing Corona 19 vaccine will be suspended, and winter vaccination will be unified with the 2nd improved vaccine.
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Can you tell us the status of the COVID-19 outbreak?
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As of 0:00 today, there are 22,327 new corona19 patients.
There are 24,000 fewer than yesterday.
It showed a downward trend for the sixth day, which is about the same as a week ago and about 1,000 less than two weeks ago.
Although the Corona 19 winter resurgence has begun in earnest, the number of confirmed cases is showing a gradual increase or stagnation rather than a rapid increase.
The quarantine authorities expect that the number of confirmed cases will fluctuate for the time being.
Authorities are closely watching the lower displacement dominant species, believing that the peak of this epidemic may come earlier than expected.
The increase and decrease in confirmed cases and the trend of severe cases, which usually appear with a lag of 2 to 3 weeks, are relatively poor.
The number of severely ill patients was 491, 10 more than the previous day, close to 500.
It is the most in 68 days since last September 21st.
44 people died in one day.
The national critical care bed utilization rate recorded 34.8%.
Authorities are paying attention to the increasing number of severely ill patients and deaths, and are concentrating their efforts on securing hospital beds and increasing vaccination rates.
Authorities are preparing for an increase in human casualties by operating additional 330 beds for critically ill patients, mainly in tertiary general hospitals and large general hospitals.
In addition, it is repeatedly emphasizing additional vaccination in winter, especially for those over the age of 60 and those vulnerable to infection.
From today, advance reservations for the 3rd and 4th vaccines using the existing unit vaccine will be suspended, and vaccination will also be suspended from the 17th of next month.
Accordingly, from today, the Corona 19 vaccination will be unified into three types of bivalent improved vaccines.
In this way, it is expected that vaccine fatigue will be reduced and immunity will be more than twice as good as existing vaccines, increasing the effect of responding to recurrent epidemics.
This is YTN’s Myungshin Choi from Social Affairs Division 2.
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