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144 confirmed patients with Corona19 confirmed today (25th). There are 977 patients. Three more people died in Korea. A Mongolian woman with a woman in her 60s and a man in her 50s with a disease. Health officials say there are 18 more serious people besides the deaths.

First, reporter Park Chan-bum will summarize what the health authorities announced today.

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Corona19 The 9th death toll in Korea is a 69-year-old woman.

I was admitted to Chilgok Kyungpook National University Hospital with abdominal bloating. The respiratory failure suddenly got worse and died yesterday.

After his death, he was positive for Corona19 and confirmed that he had contacted the Shincheonji Daegu Church Confirmer.

The tenth death was a 58-year-old man who was admitted to Qingdao Daenam Hospital.

It is not yet confirmed whether you have a disease.

The 11th death toll is Mongolian, the first foreign death in Korea.

Although he is 35 years old and relatively young, he has been reported to have chronic diseases such as chronic liver disease and kidney failure.

Corona19 cumulative confirmation of 977 patients at 4 pm today.

144 people are added every day, up to 1,000 people.

The number of patients in Daegu and Gyeongbuk is 791, accounting for 80% of the total, 82 in Seoul and Gyeonggi, and 66 in Busan and Gyeongnam.

[Eun-Kyung Chung / Head of Disease Control Division: Many people with suspicious symptoms can concentrate their tests in the community in the short term so that the number of confirmed patients will increase significantly for the time being.]

The number of severe patients is increasing.

About 18 people are classified as severe, including those with mechanical breathing.

[Eun-Kyung Chung / Head of Disease Control Division: I understand that there are 6 minutes of people who are undergoing mechanical breathing or other serious treatments (as of 2 pm today).]

More than 13,000 corona19 diagnostic tests are currently in progress, and no additional patients are discharged today.

(Video coverage: Kim Min-chul, Video editing: Park Athlete, CG: Seo Seung-hyun, Jang Sung-bum)