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4,954 new confirmed cases of Corona 19, and the number of patients in critical condition recorded an all-time high again in three days. The number of infected with the Omicron mutant virus also increased to 36, and there were also infected people in the University of Seoul.



This is the first news reporter Kim Deok-hyun reports.



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12 additional patients were infected with the Omicron mutant virus, increasing the total to 36.



Starting with a couple in their 40s who got infected after going to Nigeria, infections related to churches in Incheon are spreading.



The first case of infection was reported in Seoul as all three foreign students attending three universities in downtown Seoul were diagnosed with Omicron.



All of them were found to have visited the Incheon local church.



Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, one of them, has switched all campus classes to non-face-to-face until the 14th.



Seoul National University and Kyunghee University have also started to prepare countermeasures, such as promoting preemptive testing, but the tension among the quarantine authorities is increasing over the possibility of the spread of Omicron, centered on university campuses.



In particular, following Incheon, Seoul, North Chungcheong Province, and some areas of Gyeonggi Province also saw Omicron, which made a nationwide response inevitable.



There were 4,954 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday.



In particular, the number of patients with severe gastritis was 774, an increase of 47 from the previous day, making it the highest number ever again in three days.



There were 64 deaths.



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utilization rate of intensive care beds in the metropolitan area was 83.6%, with 919 people waiting for more than one day to be assigned.



The quarantine authorities are also planning to designate two more base hospitals exclusively in charge of COVID-19 to expand the number of treatment beds to 600.