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Yesterday (22th) 8 corona19 new confirmed patients per day increased. The cumulative number of confirmed patients reached 1,702.

Reporter Ahn Sang-woo.

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Health officials said the number of new corona19 confirmed yesterday increased by eight.

As a result, the cumulative number of corona19 patients in Korea has reached 1,702.

Four of the new confirmed cases were from overseas, and four were reported to originate from the region.

Looking at each region, 4 people increased in Daegu and 1 each in Busan and Gyeonggi.

In the quarantine process, two were confirmed.

The number of deaths related to Corona19 infection increased by 2 people a day yesterday, all 240 people died at 00:00 today.

At the same time, 134 confirmed patients were further quarantined yesterday, so far, 8,411 have been completely cured.

As the number of corona19 confirmed patients undergoing treatment in isolation is steadily decreasing, the government has announced a plan to adjust infectious diseases to balance between corona19 treatment and general care.

Accordingly, starting today, we plan to de-assign 682 beds from 12 hospitals dedicated to infectious diseases that do not have confirmed cases, and will further de-assign hospitals with poor hospitalization rates for Corona19 patients this month.