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number of new coronavirus cases remained at 200,000 for the fourth day.

The number of critically ill patients exceeded 1,000 for a week, and the fatality rate also slightly increased.



This is Reporter Joo-Hyung Lee.



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Yesterday (7th), there were 205,333 new confirmed cases of Corona 19 in one day, slightly lower than the day before, but it recorded 200,000 for the fourth day.



If you add the high-risk groups under the age of 18 and over the age of 60 among new confirmed cases, it amounts to 41.8% of the total.



The number of patients with severe gastritis was 1,93, a decrease of 23 from the previous day.



However, for a week, the number of severe cases of about 1,000 people continues to come out.



The death toll stood at 373, out of 25, representing 300 for three days in a row.



The cumulative death toll so far is 18,754, and the fatality rate has risen by 0.01 percentage point to 0.13%.



[Kim Bu-gyeom/Prime Minister (Corona 19 Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters meeting, this morning): We need to focus more on the management of nursing homes and nursing homes, which account for about 30% of all deaths.

The 4th vaccination of the elderly in nursing hospitals and nursing facilities should be expedited.]



Currently, the utilization rate of beds with severe COVID-19 is 57.7%, and there are about 1,265,000 home-treated patients.



At a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters held this morning, Prime Minister Kim Bu-gyeom announced that he would reduce the number of hospital beds and treatment centers for moderately severe cases, where the utilization rate is dropping to the 20-30% range.



He also said that the rapid antigen test, which was conducted at the screening clinic at the public health center, will also be stopped from next week.



On the other hand, according to the mathematical modeling of the corona virus by domestic university research teams, it is predicted that the number of new confirmed cases per day will drop to the low level of 100,000 at the end of this month or early next month as the prevalence of Omicron decreases.