The quarantine authorities predicted that on the 9th of next month, there would be more than 230,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, and more than 1,200 more severe cases.
Jung Eun-kyung, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a regular briefing today (28th) at the Central Quarantine Countermeasures Headquarters, "It is expected that the daily number of confirmed cases on March 9 will increase to more than 230,000 and the number of critically ill patients in hospital will increase to more than 1,200."
Director Chung explained that this is a synthesis of future occurrence predictions conducted by domestic and foreign researchers on the 23rd and 24th.
Director Chung said, "The peak of the current Corona 19 epidemic due to the spread of Omicron mutation was widely predicted from the beginning of next month to the middle of next month," he said. .
In addition, she emphasized that she will periodically predict the situation and prepare for it according to the result.
In the weekly risk assessment of the 4th week of February (20th to 26th), Bang Daebon evaluated the national, metropolitan, and non-metropolitan risk levels as 'high'.
“Due to the prevalence of Omicron mutations, the number of confirmed cases is rapidly increasing and the number of new cases of severe disease is on the rise. I explained why.