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number of additional coronavirus cases continued to rise above 80,000 for three days in a row.

Three more people have been confirmed with the new mutation, which is said to be the most contagious, and now the number has risen to seven.



The corona news was compiled by reporter Jeong Da-eun.



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Three of the patients diagnosed with the BA.2.75 mutation were confirmed on the 25th.



One person, in his 20s, who arrived from India on the 23rd, showed symptoms the next day after entry, and the other two arrived from Vietnam on the 25th and were confirmed on the same day.



All three were Korean nationals who had traveled overseas, and the symptoms were reported to be mild.



The number of new confirmed cases was 82,022, recording 80,000 for the third day in a row.



Of these, 397 cases were imported from overseas, maintaining a triple-digit number for over a month.



The number of new confirmed cases has continued to increase by 1.2 times the previous week, but the pace is decreasing.



There is also a forecast that the peak size may be lower than the original estimate that the peak could reach 280,000 at the end of August.



[Jeong Jae-hoon/Professor of Preventive Medicine, Gachon University College of Medicine: 'The speed of the epidemic is decreasing this week' also means that it can reach its peak within a week or two.

The time to reach the peak may be a little earlier and the scale of the fashion may decrease…

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However, the number of patients with severe gastritis is steadily increasing.



This is because the number of confirmed cases increases with a lag of 1 to 2 weeks.



The number of patients with severe cases of gastroenteritis was 242, the highest number in more than two months since May 26.



About 1.73 times of the same day of the week a week ago, so-called 'doubling' phenomenon is exhibited.



83.5% of severe cases and 91.4% of deaths are elderly people over 60 years of age.



Although the utilization rate of beds in critical condition is 27.7%, which is not a level of concern, the quarantine authorities plan to focus on reducing the number of severe cases and deaths.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Yoon Tae-ho)