코로나 19 사망자 3명 추가,....확진자 2,000명 넘어서
South Korea has confirmed three more COVID-19 deaths, the number of confirmed cases surpassed 23-hundred.
Mostly, from Daegu and the surrounding Gyeongsangbuk-do Province.
Another concerning development is that the country's 25th patient has been re-infected.
We start things off by connecting to our Lee Kyung-eun on the line.
Kyung-eun, please fill us in.
Yes Daniel, South Korea has confirmed three more deaths on Friday, bringing the total to 16.
They are all elderly women between the ages of 60 and 90, and are from the city of Daegu.
Two died while receiving treatment in local hospitals.
But the other, a 69-year-old woman, had been in self-quarantine and was waiting for test results.
She had been transported to Daegu Catholic University Medical Center this morning after suffering from breathing difficulties.
And within just an hour after arriving at the hospital she died, after which test results came back as "positive".
She becomes the second confirmed patient to die after being self-quarantined.
Also, South Korea has reported its first case of re-infection on Friday.
The 73-year-old woman, who was the country's 25th patient, was discharged last Saturday,...only to find that she had been re-infected less than a week later.
With that, the country has confirmed over 5-hundred more cases on Friday, bringing the total number in the country to at least 2-thousand-3-hundred-thirty seven.
More than 80 percent of the new cases are in the southeastern city of Daegu and the surrounding Gyeongsangbuk-do Province.
The number of infections is rising rapidly, but there are limited resources in the country to treat all these patients.
How is the government dealing with medical shortages?
On Friday, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced a new guideline to distinguish between serious and mild patients so they can be treated more efficiently.
According to this guideline, the level of a patient's condition will be examined based on 5 criteria: pulse, blood pressure, respiration rate, temperature, and consciousness.
The KCDC added that, based on the results, patients will be classified into four groups and each group given different treatments.
This is in line with the government's previous announcement that the country will be carrying out the so-called "mitigation strategy" for the hardest-hit areas like Daegu and Gyeongsangbuk-do Province.
"Mitigation strategy" refers to focusing resources on higher risk patients to reduce the damage to society.
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