“Stomach and critically ill, first triple digits … Will likely increase Sunday.”

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On day 1, the number of gastric and severe patients exceeded 100 for the first time since the second spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19). Quarantine authorities predict that the increase will continue for the time being as there is a time lag between the occurrence of a confirmed case and the transition to a gastric or severe patient.

Joon-wook Kwon, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said through a regular briefing the afternoon of that day. Revealed.

Quarantine authorities predicted that the size of severe and gastrointestinal patients and deaths will increase significantly for the time being. Deputy Director General Kwon said: “The timing of transition to gastric / severe patients after a new confirmed case occurs is typically one week to ten days later.” “Increase.”

It was on the 14th of last month that the number of new confirmed cases in Korea began to increase significantly. In the words of deputy general manager Kwon, the number of seriously ill patients will increase from 21 to 24. In fact, the number of gastric / severe patients from 9 to 14 at the time of reproliferation started to increase from 21 to 18. After that, 24 people (22 days) → 30 people (23 days) → 31 people (24 days) → 37 people (25 days) → 42 people (26 days) → 46 people (27 days) → 58 people (28 days) → 64 (29 days) → 70 (30 days) → 79 (31 days) → 104 (1 day). It took a week or ten days since 27 (441 people) when the number of new confirmed cases peaked after reproliferation is between 3 and 6.
Deputy Director General Kwon also mentioned this, saying: “There is probably a very high possibility that the number of seriously ill patients will increase further, at least until this Sunday.” I saw this. Assistant Director General Kwon added: “Looking at the age distribution of confirmed cases, there are a lot of older people,” he added. “Because the exact scale may differ in future progress, I’ll just tell you the big picture.”

Wooyeol Yoon, Reporter for Donga.com [email protected]