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Yesterday (2nd), the number of new corona19 confirmed patients dropped below 200 in 17 days.

However, the number of seriously ill patients surged to 30 in one day, and it took an emergency to secure a bed.



This is Park Chan-beom reporter.



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0 o'clock this morning, the number of new corona19 confirmed cases increased by 195, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases reached 2,644.



It has been 17 days since the 17th of last month that the number of new confirmed cases per day has fallen below 200.



Among the new confirmed cases, 188 were domestic outbreaks, excluding 7 foreign inflows.



148 people came out only in the metropolitan area, including 69 in Seoul, 64 in Gyeonggi, and 15 in Incheon, and 40 in non-capital areas, including 7 in Ulsan and Chungnam, 6 in Gwangju, and 5 in Jeonnam.



The number of new confirmed cases is on a decline due to the reinforced social distancing, but the number of patients with gastric and severe illnesses has soared to 154, and it took an emergency to secure beds.



The number of deaths increased by 3, and the cumulative number of deaths reached 329.



[Chang-Jun Lee/Central Accident Control Headquarters Patient Management Division: Since there is a possibility that the severity of patients who have suddenly increased in the metropolitan area will continue to increase, we will have tensions in our heavy water supply so that critically ill beds can be prepared sooner...

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Meanwhile, at a kimchi factory in Cheongyang, South Chungcheong Province, a Nepali nationality worker in her 20s was confirmed yesterday, and so far, the number of related confirmed workers, including factory workers and family members, has increased to 18.



The plant decided to recover and dispose of the entire kimchi it produced.



The quarantine authorities said that while the explosive spread, which was feared by strengthened social distancing, is being suppressed, sporadic group infections are occurring all over the country and that they will decide whether to extend the strengthened quarantine measures in the metropolitan area around this weekend.