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now on, we will continue the news of Corona 19.
The number of additional confirmed cases decreased significantly from the previous day to 700, but the cumulative death toll has now exceeded 1,000 as the number of patients with serious conditions recently increased.
In February of last year, the first corona death in Korea had more than 500 deaths in 9 months, and it has reached 1,000 in 40 days.
Eight out of the 10 dead were elderly people over 70 years old.
First, reporter Park Soo-jin.
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Yesterday (4th), the number of new corona19 confirmed cases fell to 715, again falling below 1,000.
The number of confirmed cases fluctuates and shows a gentle downward curve, but the problem is the size of deaths.
Since the third epidemic spread last month, it has increased noticeably.
On December 15 last year, it hit double digits and soared to 40, the most in two weeks, and the double digits have continued to increase ever since.
Of the deaths, 55% were in their 80s or older, and 28% in their 70s.
The reason why the elderly died a lot is because the infection was concentrated in nursing hospitals or nursing facilities.
[Sae-Kyun Jeong/Prime Minister: (In nursing hospitals), it is very important to take preemptive quarantine management as confirmed patients are severely deteriorated and eventually lead to death.] Since
last December, due to the shortage of beds, hospitalization or treatment has not been made in time There are also many cases of death.
[Lee, Sang - Won / Central Defense Headquarters epidemiological analysis renovated: will be that the first measures that thorough preventive avoid corona 19 does not occur, (we will) help lower chimyeongryul receive proper severe treatment -
Defense Authorities domestic mutation virus Two more confirmed cases were confirmed, all of which increased to 12, but the possibility of spreading to the region was low.
(Video coverage: Min-cheol Kim, Video editing: Player Park, CG: Dong-soo Park)