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We will move on to the Corona 19 breaking news.

First of all, there were 195 additional confirmed cases, down below 200 in 17 days.

The quarantine authorities said that the distancing effect is appearing, and that it will decide tomorrow (4th) whether the current step 2.5 will be finished this Sunday or more.



First is Park Chan-beom reporter.



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27th of last month, when the number of new corona19 confirmed 441 people reached, the quarantine authorities announced the implementation of the '2.5 steps to distance' in the metropolitan area, including restrictions on restaurant use the next day.



Since then, the number of confirmed cases has continued to decrease and yesterday fell below 200 in 17 days.



The quarantine authorities will announce tomorrow whether or not to extend the planned distance between 2.5 steps until Sunday.



[Yoon Tae-ho/Head of Central Accident Control Headquarters: Since there was such a trend that the number of patients increased afterwards over the summer holiday, the goal is to stabilize the number of patients as much as possible before Chuseok.] The number of



new confirmed

cases

is decreasing, but The number of severely ill patients increased to 154 by adding 31.



From the end of August to the beginning of September, the number of gastric and severe patients was up to 134, exceeding our estimates.



[Lee Chang-joon/Central Accident Control Headquarters Patient Bed Management Team: I said that bed management would be relatively relaxed, but in the current situation, more than 150 people now have to change the existing simulation.]



There are still not enough beds to accommodate severely ill patients, but only 43 are readily available.



Five local governments, including Daejeon, have no remaining beds, so if a critically ill occurs, it is in a situation to be returned to another city or province.



The authorities issued a policy to secure 110 additional critically ill beds in September, with the help of the military.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Park Player, CG: Choi Jin-hoe, Ryu Sang-soo) 



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