The number of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 is about 68,000, and the spread continues. The number of patients with severe severe cases also doubled from the previous week for two days in a row, so caution is needed.
Correspondent Jeong Seong-jin.
Yesterday (22nd), there were 68,551 new cases of Corona 19 in one day.
This is a 1.66 times increase from a week ago, and about 70,000 new patients have been continuously occurring in the last five days.
The number of new patients, which remained below 10,000 until the end of June, continued to double for three weeks this month, showing a clear trend of spread.
Affected by the rapid increase in new confirmed cases, the number of patients with severe cases is also accelerating.
Yesterday, the number of severe cases of serious illness was counted at 140, the highest in 49 days.
It has doubled from the previous week for two days in a row, and the number of patients with severe cases of gastritis also appears to be doubling.
The utilization rate of intensive care beds nationwide was 18.9%, up 0.7 percentage points from the previous day.
There were also 30 deaths.
The BA.5 mutation is actually leading the spread as it has become the dominant species, and the BA.2.75 mutation, which is said to have greater contagious power than BA.5, has also been confirmed for the third infection in Korea.
[손영래 /중앙사고수습본부 사회전략반장 : BA.2.75의 경우에는 이미 지역 사회에서 감염이 확인된 바 있어 지역 사회를 중심으로 서서히 감염이 확산되고 있다고 보는 중입니다.]
As it is known to have the strongest immune evasion, the risk of re-infection is growing.
The increase is expected to continue for a while as large-scale movement is expected to increase nationwide during the summer holidays and holidays in late July and early August.
