580 COVID-19 patients in Seoul waiting for hospital beds
- 3 years ago
코로나19 병상 대기 환자, 서울만 580명
Our starting point tonight: For the third straight day over one-thousand new Covid-19 cases have been added in South Korea as authorities in Seoul warn that hospital beds are in short supply.
The death toll rose to 645 after 11 more patients died overnight.
The City of Seoul said a Covid patient in his 60s died at his home earlier this week after officials failed to find him a hospital bed for days. An "explosive growth" in patients this month resulted in an "overload in administrative and medical systems" those are the words from the city government.
Jang Tae-hyun reports.
South Korea on Friday recorded 1-thousand-62 cases of COVID-19.
1-thousand-36 were local infections and 26 were from overseas.
Cases are sprouting up all over the country,...such as in offices, factories and at religious facilities.
There have also been cluster infections recorded at saunas on Jeju Island and in the southeastern port city of Busan.
In Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do Province, six more people related to a ski resort outbreak were confirmed with the virus,... raising the tally to 17.
Meanwhile, four elderly patients who contracted the virus at a nursing hospital in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do Province have died... due to the hospital bed shortage.
In the greater capital area, there are 251 patients, mostly severely ill, waiting for hospital beds.
And in the city of Seoul itself,... 85 of the 86 beds used for critically ill patients are currently occupied.
"As of December 17th, there are 580 patients in Seoul waiting for hospital beds. 353 are those who were confirmed yesterday and 227 have been waiting for more than a day."
One Seoul resident died earlier this week while waiting for a hospital bed to become available.
"We express our condolences to the deceased patient who was confirmed on the 12th and was waiting at home to be hospitalized. We feel a great sense of responsibility."
Seoul city says that it will work with the health ministry to strengthen the medical system, addressing the hospital bed shortage in particular.
Jang Tae-hyun, Arirang News.
Our starting point tonight: For the third straight day over one-thousand new Covid-19 cases have been added in South Korea as authorities in Seoul warn that hospital beds are in short supply.
The death toll rose to 645 after 11 more patients died overnight.
The City of Seoul said a Covid patient in his 60s died at his home earlier this week after officials failed to find him a hospital bed for days. An "explosive growth" in patients this month resulted in an "overload in administrative and medical systems" those are the words from the city government.
Jang Tae-hyun reports.
South Korea on Friday recorded 1-thousand-62 cases of COVID-19.
1-thousand-36 were local infections and 26 were from overseas.
Cases are sprouting up all over the country,...such as in offices, factories and at religious facilities.
There have also been cluster infections recorded at saunas on Jeju Island and in the southeastern port city of Busan.
In Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do Province, six more people related to a ski resort outbreak were confirmed with the virus,... raising the tally to 17.
Meanwhile, four elderly patients who contracted the virus at a nursing hospital in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do Province have died... due to the hospital bed shortage.
In the greater capital area, there are 251 patients, mostly severely ill, waiting for hospital beds.
And in the city of Seoul itself,... 85 of the 86 beds used for critically ill patients are currently occupied.
"As of December 17th, there are 580 patients in Seoul waiting for hospital beds. 353 are those who were confirmed yesterday and 227 have been waiting for more than a day."
One Seoul resident died earlier this week while waiting for a hospital bed to become available.
"We express our condolences to the deceased patient who was confirmed on the 12th and was waiting at home to be hospitalized. We feel a great sense of responsibility."
Seoul city says that it will work with the health ministry to strengthen the medical system, addressing the hospital bed shortage in particular.
Jang Tae-hyun, Arirang News.