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Today (15th), the number of new confirmed cases is expected to exceed 330,000.

The quarantine authorities predicted that the epidemic would end around the 23rd.

Yesterday, there was a lot of congestion as testers who wanted to take an expert rapid antigen test flocked to each local hospital and clinic.



Reporter Park Jae-hyun visited the site.



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The screening clinic at Mokdong Stadium in Seoul yesterday afternoon.



Compared to the previous day, when about 4,000 people lined up for more than 1km, the number of inspectors has decreased significantly.



Instead, they were rushed to the local hospitals and clinics.



This is to receive a professional rapid antigen test.



The hospital had the examiners wait for the test results in the hallway outside the hospital in order to separate the movement lines from the general patients.



[Hospital medical staff: It came out positive and a prescription came out.

I'll prescribe you 5 days' worth of medicine.

Go down immediately, get a prescription, and go home.] In



this hospital alone, 175 people, three times the usual number, were tested, and 68 of them were confirmed.



[Kim Jae-hyun / Yonsei Medical Clinic Director (specialist): There is a situation where people who have been tested at the public health center are rushed to the clinic (general treatment), and there is an overload.

Medical staff are also exposed to the risk of infection a little more because there are a lot of patients suspected of Corona.]



In some hospitals, the waiting time for the test was more than 2 hours.



[Neighborhood otolaryngology staff: There were a lot of people gathered at once, and there were some people who waited for more than 2 hours...

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The total number of confirmed cases may increase as the confirmation is made faster than the PCR test.



The quarantine authorities predicted that the epidemic would peak at an average of 372,000 daily confirmed cases between the 16th and 22nd.



It is said that the fashion will cease around the 23rd.



It was expected that the peak of patients with severe severe cases would reach an average of 2,120 from the 25th of this month to the 1st of the next month, a little later.



The government thought that further easing of the distance would be possible at this scale, and started a full-scale review from this week.