The quarantine authorities predicted that the day after this week (16th), there will be more than 320,000 new confirmed cases of Corona 19, and the number of confirmed cases will turn to a decreasing trend around the 23rd, the middle of next week.
The Central Quarantine Countermeasures Headquarters announced today based on the results of a synthesis of predictive research conducted by a number of research teams on the 9th.
Five of the seven research teams predicted that there would be more than 320,000 new confirmed cases on the 16th, and five of the six research teams predicted that the epidemic would turn down on the 23rd.
Each research team predicted the peak period of the epidemic from the 16th to the 22nd, and suggested that the daily average of new confirmed cases could range from 316,000 to 372,000.
During hospitalization, 4 teams predicted that the number of critically ill patients would be more than 1,300 on the 16th and more than 1,800 on the 23rd.
It is also predicted that from the 25th of this month to the 1st of the next month, the number of patients with severe severe cases will peak, and the average daily number will be 1,650-2,150.
Also, last week (3.6-12), the country's COVID-19 risk was evaluated as 'very high', the highest out of five levels.
The same evaluation was made last week after the previous week (2.27~3.5), the national level of the COVID-19 risk was diagnosed as 'very high'.
The risk in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas also remained 'very high'.
The detection rate of Omicron-type mutation in domestic infection cases was 99.98% as of 00:00 on the 12th, and the detection rate of 'BA. Among the cases, it was 45.7%.
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