<Anchor> The number of
new corona19 confirmed patients fell below 200 in 17 days.
However, the number of patients with gastric and severe illnesses surged to 30 in one day, and it took an emergency to secure beds.
This is Park Chan-beom reporter.
<Reporter> As of
today (3rd) at 0 am, the number of new corona 19 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 seriously ill patients 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 Recovery Headquarters Patient Bed Management Team: Since there is a possibility that the severity of patients who have suddenly increased in the metropolitan area will continue to increase, so that we can have tension in our heavy-duty hospital and prepare critically ill beds more quickly in a short period of time...
.]
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 20.
The factory decided to recover and dispose of all the kimchi it produced.
The quarantine authorities said that while the explosive spread, which was feared by the 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.