<Anchor> There were
1,30 new corona19 confirmed cases yesterday (12th), recording the highest number ever.
It is the first time since the outbreak of coronavirus in Korea that the number of new confirmed cases exceeded 1,000.
The medical system has an emergency due to the shortage of critically ill beds that can be admitted immediately.
This is reporter Kim Hyung-rae.
<Reporter> There were
1,30 new corona19 confirmed yesterday, exceeding 1,000 for the first time.
Yesterday, the number of confirmed cases was recorded again a day after 950 were released.
In particular, although the number of tests yesterday decreased by 14,000 compared to the previous day, which is a weekday, the number of confirmed cases increased significantly.
Out of all confirmed cases, the majority of cases are domestic, with 1,2.
786 people were confirmed in the metropolitan area, including 396 in Seoul and 328 in Gyeonggi, and 216 in non-capital areas, including 56 in Busan and 28 in Daegu.
The number of deaths increased by 2, and the cumulative death toll was 580.
This is because latent infections scattered in the Gyeonggi area of Seoul have spread to group infections in churches and nursing hospitals.
As the effect of raising social distancing has not been sufficiently shown, the spread is expected to continue for the time being.
There is an urgent need to secure a critically ill bed to treat as many as 179 patients with severely ill patients.
As of the 11th, there were only 58 beds in the country and 11 in the metropolitan area where critically ill patients can be admitted immediately.
The quarantine authorities have taken measures to secure a dedicated bed by moving patients in the rehabilitation ward of the Seoul Central Veterans Hospital to another hospital.