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Let's take a look at the medical facilities and personnel situation in Daegu and Gyeongbuk where the number of patients increased.

The patients who were confirmed were recently closed at the five emergency departments of five university hospitals today (19).

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Four of the five senior hospitals in Daegu have been closed since last night.

The emergency department of the Daegu Catholic University Hospital where three patients, including Kyungpook National University Hospital, Yeungnam University Medical Center, and Dongsan Medical Center, and the suspected patient visited, closed.

The same is true for Yeongcheon, Gyeongbuk.

In addition to the Yeongcheon Hospital, affiliated with Yeungnam University, all five hospitals and clinics to which doctors visited were closed.

The average patient is anxious.

[Wang Soon / Patient Guardian: It's terrible. Yeongcheon also said that. Because I have hip surgery, I can't be treated for a day.]

There were also loopholes in the initial quarantine. On the 16th, 39 patients complained of chills and muscle pain and visited Yeongcheon Yeungnam University Hospital emergency room.

At that time, my body temperature was 37.8 degrees, but the hospital gave me a muscle injection.

[Hospital official: Judging from the doctor's decision, there is no overseas travel experience and there is no corona patient contact.

Although the public health centers that were visited by the patrons were closed, residents of the country who wanted to have a fever test continued.

In Busan, the emergency room was closed after suspicious patients went to Haeundae and Gaeum Paik Hospital.

The Yeongnam Regional Base Hospital has been partially closed, raising concerns that the gap in medical care at the time of MERS was reproduced five years ago.

(Video coverage: Jung Kyung Moon · Shin Dong Hee KNN, Video editing: Park Jung Sam)