Announced today, 2,500 confirmed cases are expected... 460 cases of severe severe illness

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Today (11th), the number of new corona cases is expected to be around 2,500. As the spread continues, the number of severe cases of severe disease recorded an all-time high yesterday. Facilities that are vulnerable to infection, including nursing homes, have started boosting vaccinations.

Correspondent Park Chan-geun.

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This nursing hospital in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, started additional vaccinations for about 300 employees who have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

With the recent surge in group infections in nursing hospitals and facilities, the government has advanced the schedule by 4 weeks to require additional vaccination 5 months after completion of the vaccination.

[Lee Da-eun / Nursing Hospital Staff: There are a lot of breakthrough infections in the nursing hospital, so I thought that I shouldn’t cause damage to others… .] The

number of patients with severe severe cases increased by 35 in one day, recording an all-time high of 460.

When looking at the age group of patients with weekly severe heart disease, the number of young people decreased, and the proportion of those over 60 increased to 79%.

The rate of exacerbation to severe seriousness was only 0.56% of those who completed the vaccination, but 2.93% of those who were not vaccinated or did not complete the vaccination were more than five times higher.

[Sohn Young-rae/Chairman of Social Strategy Team, Central Accident Remediation Headquarters: I think that how much the total number of unvaccinated confirmed patients will increase will be a major indicator of the rate of increase in critically ill patients in the future… .]

There are 1,121 intensive care beds across the country that can treat critically ill patients, and the bed utilization rate was 57.2%.

In particular, in Seoul, with 71.3%, only 99 intensive care beds remain.

The quarantine authorities said that if the situation becomes more serious, such as the utilization rate of intensive care beds exceeding 75%, daily recovery can be stopped and emergency plans such as strong distance can be initiated, and the enforcement conditions will be announced on the 16th.