A temporary screening and testing center for the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) is being installed at the National Debt Compensation Movement Memorial Park in Jung-gu, Daegu on the 29th. [사진=연합뉴스]
As of 00:00 on the same day, the Central Quarantine Countermeasures Headquarters announced that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases increased by 82,002, bringing the total to 1,970,2461. This is 3,318 fewer than the previous day (85,320).
The number of new confirmed cases on this day is 1.2 times the number of the 23rd (68,537 people) a week ago and 1.99 times the 16th (41,302 people) two weeks ago. Although the number of new confirmed cases continues to increase, the rate of increase appears to have slowed significantly.
Since the beginning of this month, the number of new confirmed cases has been doubling in one week, but since the middle of last week, the ratio of the number of new confirmed cases is gradually approaching 1.
As the epidemic has calmed down, the government is cautiously predicting that the peak of the number of new daily cases of this epidemic may be less than the 300,000 originally expected. In a briefing at the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters on the 29th, Baek Kyung-ran, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, explained, “There is a possibility that the peak of 200,000, which is lower than originally expected, will be formed earlier than expected.”
The number of new confirmed cases in the week from the 24th to today was 65,374 → 35,864 → 99,261 → 10287 → 88,384 → 85,320 → 82,002. The average number is 79,495.
Meanwhile, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) announced that three additional patients infected with the BA2.75 (aka centaur mutation) mutation were introduced from abroad. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of centaur mutation infection to seven. It is known that the centaur mutation has 8 more spike gene mutations compared to BA.
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