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Let's take a closer look at what the room is like. Only a week ago, the availability of nationally-designated inpatient beds was less than 50%, but now the number has increased to 85.7% with the recent increase in the number of patients. By region, there are already nine areas in Seoul, Busan, Ulsan, and Daejeon, as well as Daegu and Gyeongbuk, where patients are many. The facilities for treating seriously ill patients are nearly saturated and, as you have seen, there is not enough room for hospitalization.

Reporter Nam Joo-hyun pointed out why it is getting late.

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Today (28th) morning, the patient of Corona19, a patient in her 50s who was on treatment for three days at Andong Medical Center, suddenly got worse.

I asked about a nationally-designated inpatient bed that could treat severe patients, but it was not easy to find a hospital to power it.

The patient departed at Chonbuk National University Hospital, only 240 km away, at 3 pm.

[Lee Yoon-sik / Andong Medical Center: There was no such intensive care unit in the neighborhood of the negative pressure isolation room, so it took a long time to get a transfer destination.]

The Central Disaster Safety and Prevention Headquarters seriously upgraded the Infectious Disease Crisis and created a support room for all patients.

However, some areas are already full and some are still passive in providing hospital rooms.

Critically ill patients may have difficulty transporting long distances.

Today, a patient in Gyeongbuk province has given up to move away from Seoul National Hospital's negative pressure bed.

Lack of beds for mild patients is still a big problem.

This is because it takes time to send an existing patient to another hospital and change the facility to accommodate a Corona 19 patient.

[Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare: Kim Masan Hospital, for example, is a hospital that mainly treats patients with tuberculosis, but some disinfection and some modifications to facilities were inevitable.]

Last night in Daegu, ambulances were mobilized and 187 people were transported. In order to hospitalize all 600 patients who are self-contained, securing a means of transportation is also a challenge.

(Video coverage: Kim Min-chul, Video editing: Lee Jae-sung)