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red light is turned on for the step-by-step recovery of daily life. As of 9 pm yesterday (24th), the number of new corona cases in Seoul has already been the highest ever, and the number of hospital beds is bottoming out due to a surge in patients with severe cases. The government also diagnosed that it is an urgent situation in the metropolitan area where it is necessary to review the activation of the emergency plan at any time.
Reporter Kim Yong-tae reports.
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group infection occurred at the Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul.
Since the 20th, more than 110 people, including market workers, have been confirmed.
[Market Merchant: (No business) Merchants are very stressed. I have to (check) everything. I take it once every two days. Now.] After the
gradual recovery of daily life, the quarantine has eased and the number of breakthrough infections has soared, so the number of confirmed cases per day has now exceeded 4,000.
The number of patients with severe severe disease, which is rapidly increasing beyond the predicted range, was also the highest at 586.
Most are elderly people, but one teenager and one under 10 were included.
The daily death toll was 34, the highest since the fourth epidemic.
The situation in which all indicators are heading to the worst, the government also judged that it was more serious than expected.
[Kim Bu-gyeom/Prime Minister: If you look at the metropolitan area, it is an urgent situation that you need to review the activation of the emergency plan at any time.]
The government has announced that it will secure additional intensive care beds and raise the rate of home treatment to less than 20%.
In addition, we have decided to expand the supply of the domestic antibody treatment Reckonage not only to hospitals dedicated to infectious diseases, but also to living treatment centers and nursing homes.