While the corona 19 winter resurgence is stagnant, 70,000 new confirmed cases occurred today (7th).
The Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters announced that as of 0:00 today, the number of corona19 confirmed cases increased by 74,714, bringing the cumulative total to 27,483,568.
As the number of diagnostic tests, which decreased over the weekend, increased, the number of confirmed cases decreased by 2,890 compared to the previous day when the number of confirmed cases soared (77,604), but compared to the 30th of last month (67,402) a week ago, 7,312 people, each increased by 4,412 from the 23rd of last month (70,302) two weeks ago.
Compared to a week ago, the number of new confirmed cases has fluctuated between increase and decrease since the middle of last month.
Some analyze that it has passed the peak of the resurgence in winter, but the quarantine authorities are showing a cautious attitude.
Jeong Ki-seok, head of the National Infectious Disease Crisis Response Advisory Committee and Corona 19 Special Response Team, said at a recent briefing, "It's not that there are no patients with Corona 19, they just don't report it."
The number of severely ill patients in hospital was 441, a decrease of 2 from yesterday (443).
The number of severely ill patients recorded a high level of 400 from the 19th to the 19th of last month.
The daily average number of critically ill patients for a week was 447.
The number of deaths yesterday was 54, 30 more than the previous day (24).
The number of deaths, which recently ranged between 40 and 60, plummeted yesterday, but it seems to have been a temporary phenomenon.
The cumulative death toll is 30,847, and the fatality rate is 0.11%.