While it is evaluated that the number of corona19 confirmed patients is close to the peak, there were close to 300,000 new confirmed cases today (11th).
The Central Quarantine Countermeasures Headquarters announced that as of 00:00 today, the number of new confirmed cases increased by 282,987, bringing the total to 5,822,626.
The number of new confirmed cases fell by 44,556 from yesterday (327,543, initially revised to 337,549), dropping below 300,000 in three days, but still at 300,000. It's a close level.
Prime Minister Kim Bu-gyeom said at a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (Central Headquarters) presided over at the government complex in Seoul today, "It will peak within the next ten days, and the scale will reach a maximum of 370,000 based on the weekly average daily confirmed cases. We anticipate that,” he said.
As the number of confirmed cases increases, the number of deaths and severe cases is also increasing rapidly.
Yesterday's death toll rose to 229, another record high.
The cumulative number of deaths is 9,875, and considering that the average daily death toll for the past week is 185, it is highly likely that the total number of deaths in Korea will exceed 10,000 on the 12th, a day later.
The cumulative fatality rate is 0.17%.
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