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Nationwide, things got seriously worse after a day. As of yesterday (21st), there were 204 cumulative people, but there were no confirmed areas. Today, only 230 people have been confirmed. Daegu Gyeongbuk is over 80% of the confirmed patients.

This is reporter Park Chan Beom.

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The number of confirmed patients in Corona19 in Korea, which was 204 as of yesterday's announcement, increased to 433 as of 4 pm today.

The number of confirmed patients more than doubled in one day.

The cumulative number of confirmed patients by region is 209 in Daegu and 144 in Gyeongbuk, accounting for more than 80% of all confirmed patients.

The Central Accident and Remediation Division maintains that the crisis stage is at the 'border' level, but only in Daegu and Gyeongbuk, it has been upgraded to the "severe level", saying it is managing it specially.

[Kim Kang-lip, Deputy General Manager, Central Accident and Remedial Affairs Headquarters: In the serious stage, it means that the disease will be transformed into a countermeasure system to cope with the spread of infectious diseases nationwide.]

The number of additional confirmed patients is increasing exponentially, mainly in Daegu Church of Shinchonji and Daenam Hospital in Qingdao.

So far, there were 231 confirmers associated with Daegu Sincheonji Church and 111 confirmees at Qingdao Daenam Hospital.

In the Namnam Hospital Mental Ward, more than 90% of 117 patients and medical staff were confirmed.

[Eun-Kyung Chung / Head of Disease Control Division: Of the 111 patients who were confirmed by Qingdao Daenam Hospital, two patients were identified in the general ward (except for the psychiatric ward).]

More than 6,000 cases of Corona19 diagnostic testing are in progress today at 4 pm, and the number of additional confirmed patients will continue to increase.

Living with a son and daughter-in-law who visited China A 74-year-old Korean woman, infected with Corona 19, was released from hospital today and has been lifted to 18.

(Video coverage: Kim Mincheol, Video editing: Soyoung Lee)