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4,325 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, and 700 cases of severe cases for the sixth day. Omicron mutation is spreading rapidly in Korea, and the number of infected people doubled in one day, and the number was counted to 24.
First news, reporter Park Soo-jin.
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4,325 new confirmed cases of Corona 19 yesterday (5th).
Excluding 29 imported cases, 4,296 were domestically infected.
3,010 people came from the metropolitan area and 1,286 people from non-metropolitan areas.
The number of severe cases was 727, a decrease of 17 from the previous day, but it recorded 700 for the sixth day, and 41 people died, so 3,893 people have lost their lives to Corona 19.
The utilization rate of critically ill beds in the metropolitan area was 90%, and 982 people waited for more than one day to be assigned, and 30 people in non-metropolitan areas also occurred in Gangwon-do.
The government said that the effect of the executive order issued twice last month is now being implemented in earnest, and that it will create a hospital bed system that can handle up to 10,000 confirmed patients a day.
[Kim Bu-gyeom/Prime Minister: Until yesterday, we have expanded about 2,400 beds nationwide, including intensive care beds. We will continue to secure hospital beds to a level that can handle 10,000 confirmed
patients a day
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number of patients infected with Omicron, a new mutant of COVID-19, doubled in one day, and the number was counted to 24.
In particular, the infection is spreading in Incheon, starting with a couple in their 40s who visited Nigeria.
Suspected cases of Omicron are also increasing centering on the churches the confirmed people attended, and some of them attend school or live in Seoul or North Chungcheong Province, raising concerns about the spread of the virus to other areas.
The primary vaccination rate for the COVID-19 vaccine is 83.1%, and the secondary vaccination rate is 80.5%.
The tertiary vaccination rate, which means booster vaccination, was counted at 7.7%.