(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The number of newly diagnosed cases in South Korea surges in a single day, experts predict that the turning point has not yet come
China News Agency, Seoul, December 8th (Reporter Liu Xu) The South Korean Central Anti-epidemic Countermeasures Headquarters reported on the 8th local time that as of 0:00 that day, South Korea had newly confirmed 7175 new cases of new coronary pneumonia compared with 0:00 the previous day, and a total of 489,484 confirmed cases were confirmed.
The number of new cases in a single day increased sharply by 2221 from the previous day, exceeding 7,000 for the first time, a record high since the outbreak.
South Korean media quoted expert opinions and analyzed that the epidemic in South Korea is still at a high level and the turning point has not yet arrived. They call on the government to take effective response measures, otherwise the number of new cases in a single day may exceed 10,000.
Experts pointed out that although booster vaccines can improve people's ability to prevent infection and severe illness, the current booster vaccination rate in South Korea is only 8.8%.
Although the South Korean government has introduced re-tightening measures to prevent the epidemic, many people have long been tired of maintaining social distancing, and the scale of infection has further expanded. It is expected that the current spread of the epidemic will be difficult to reverse.
At the same time, the number of critically ill cases in South Korea is also increasing rapidly, and the number of beds has also become saturated.
As of 17:00 local time on the 7th, the occupancy rate of COVID-19 beds across South Korea is 78.7%, and that of the metropolitan area is 84.5%.
The vacancy rate of Daejeon City, Sejong City, Gangwon Province, and Gyeongsangbuk Province is zero.
In response to the Omi Keron variant, South Korea added 2 new confirmed cases of the new crown variant Omi Keron that day, with a total of 38 confirmed cases.
The two new cases were all confirmed locally, and they were all family members of a church member in Incheon.
Up to now, South Korea has a total of 723 people listed as close contacts of Omi Keron, and a total of about 1,700 people have been tracked and investigated.
Yonhap News Agency said that because of the churches with confirmed cases of Omi Keron, many believers attended the service without being vaccinated, and the possibility of large-scale mass infections centered on the church has increased.
Moreover, the three confirmed cases who visited the church attended three universities in Seoul, and the risk of Omi Keron's spread in universities is increasing.
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