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Increasing trend is not falling, and there are no hospital beds even after being confirmed, so more and more people are waiting at home.
Following Seoul, there was a case in Gyeonggi Province where patients in their 70s and 80s died waiting for a sick bed.
The government said that there were 8 confirmed patients who died while waiting for a bed assignment.
Next is reporter Jung Joon-ho.
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A nursing hospital in Bucheon that entered the same group quarantine after the first confirmed person came out on the 11th.
About 90 inpatients who have been confirmed confirmed are quarantined here.
Most of them are elderly and suffer from underlying diseases, so the Bucheon Public Health Center has requested the assignment of severe beds to Gyeonggi-do, but was not accepted due to the lack of beds.
[Bucheon City official: Actually, we ask for (beds) at once, but we can't give it, so we ask for a few seats...
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Meanwhile, two patients in their 70s died one after another on the 13th and 14th, and the patient in their 80s died on the 16th, the 5th waiting day.
The government said eight patients, including them, died outside the hospital while waiting for a bed after the diagnosis.
The problem is the steep confirmation trend that causes a shortage of beds, but the metropolitan area is already reaching its limit.
There are only 4 serious beds in the metropolitan area out of 45 that can be admitted right away, and only 3 are left for patients with pre-severe stages.
In Seoul, the number of patients waiting for a bed exceeded the number of new confirmed cases a day.
[Park Yoo-mi/Seoul City Citizen Health Bureau: We are trying to prevent waiting for bed assignments for more than two days, but the number of confirmed patients has increased, and there are many waiting for bed assignments…
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quarantine authorities have announced that they will not only try to secure beds, but also move patients who are recovering completely quickly to increase the efficiency of bed operations.
(Video editing: Kim Ho-jin)