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Corona 19 severe patients recorded 400 people for 9 consecutive days.
In particular, it has been confirmed that there are more deaths than in the early stages of the Corona 19 epidemic in the elderly, and the government will start operating additional beds for severe cases from tomorrow.
Reporter Kim Hyun-ah reports.
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The increase in new cases of COVID-19 has slowed.
As of 0:00, there were about 47,000 people, an increase of about 1,000 from a week ago, but a decrease of more than 1,400 compared to two weeks ago.
However, the number of severely ill patients was close to 500, and 39 deaths occurred.
Along with the increase in severely ill patients, the risk of the elderly is also increasing.
According to the data on the severity rate and fatality rate according to the epidemic of the Corona 19 mutation released by the quarantine authorities, the severity rate and fatality rate of Corona 19 have decreased by more than 1/20 since the BA. 109, a 2.5-fold increase.
It has been confirmed that the management of the elderly’s severe illness is the key to managing recurrent outbreaks in winter.
The government is 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, we are repeatedly emphasizing additional vaccinations during the winter season, especially for those over the age of 60 and those vulnerable to infection.
If winter additional vaccination is unified with bivalent vaccination, the nth vaccination disappears and vaccination becomes simple with basic vaccination and bivalent vaccination.
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 Kim Hyun-ah.
YTN Kim Hyeon-ah ([email protected])
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