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Treatment requires a negative pressure room, a facility that keeps the virus out. However, Daegu Medical Center, which we had previously connected to, was already filled with patients who had a negative pressure room. There is also a shortage of skilled workers and needs support.

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Selected clinic in Daegu Medical Center. Busy with people gathered for the test.

Daegu has launched the Corona 19 Emergency Emergency System.

Above all, it is urgent to secure a negative pressure room that can contain patients.

Daegu Medical Center Dongguan. Right now, access is controlled, and there are a total of 10 nationally-designated negative pressure rooms, now full of confirmed and suspected patients.

According to the Central Accident Prevention Headquarters, there are 54 negative pressure beds in Daegu and 34 in Gyeongbuk, but it is not enough to handle this trend.

[Daegu Medical Center Official: The negative pressure room itself can not let us put a lot, patients are pouring. We can't get it anymore because it is full.]

In particular, there are only two epidemiologists in Daegu.

Kwon Young-jin, the Mayor of Daegu, admitted that Corona19 has already spread deeply into the community and that there is a limit to coping with local capacity.

[Kwon, Young-Jin / Daegu Mayor: We request the dispatch of a special task force, the necessary epidemiological investigation and medical personnel support, the administrative and financial support of the negative pressure room, and the transition to the current situation.

The health authorities will support the use of beds from other local governments when there is a lack of negative pressure in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk areas, but the lack of beds is a nationwide phenomenon that requires urgent countermeasures.

(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol, Video editing: Kim Jong-tae)