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news of COVID-19 continues.
The number of new confirmed cases is around 100,000 for the third day.
Even on holidays, the explosive spread did not stop.
It was a week ago that the cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeded 1 million, but if you include the outbreak today (the 20th), it has already surpassed 2 million.
Reporter Jeong Seong-jin reports.
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As of 00:00 today, 104,000 new cases of COVID-19 have been added.
Even though it was a holiday, it maintained the 100,000 level for the third day.
The cumulative number of patients has exceeded 2 million when today's occurrences are added.
While the cumulative number exceeded 1 million on the 6th, it had been two years since Corona 19 entered Korea, the next 1 million people exploded in the last 15 days, so you can feel the recent rapid spread of Omicron mutation. .
The number of confirmed cases is doubling in a week from 30,000 a day two weeks ago to 50,000 last week and 100,000 this weekend. I'm looking forward.
The number of severe cases is in the 400s for two days in a row.
[Lee Ki-il / Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters 1st Controller (the day before): It is still uncertain how many confirmed cases will increase.
If there is an excessive increase, the maintenance of the medical system or essential social functions may be disrupted.]
As the number of confirmed cases increases, the number of home-treated patients is also doubling every week.
The number of home therapists reached 450,000, an increase of about 230,000 from a week ago and nearly 50,000 from the day before.
The government said that the number of hospitals and clinics providing phone consultations or prescriptions to home-treated patients increased by more than 4,000 over the past week, surpassing 6,000.
Some pharmacies and convenience stores are in short supply, and 21 million self-test kits are expected to be supplied in one week.
(Video editing: Kim Jong-mi)