Patients with nCoV infection in critical condition in the city of Deagu and North Gyeongsang Province will be transferred to Seoul to continue treatment.

"Some patients have been transferred and are being treated at hospitals in Seoul. A hotline between the Seoul government and Deagu and North Gyeongsang has been established," Seoul Mayor Park Won Soon announced yesterday. .

A spike in new infections in the southern region of South Korea, mainly in the city of Deagu, has led to a shortage of hospital beds and treatment facilities there. The country today recorded the 13th case of nCoV deaths, adding 505 virus-positive cases, bringing the total number of nationwide infections to more than 1,700 and becoming the world's second largest Covid-19 outbreak, after China. Mainland China.

About 80% of corona virus cases have been recorded in Daegu city, 300 km southeast of Seoul, and neighboring North Gyeongsang Province. Seoul also recorded 6 new infections.

South Korea reported the first case on January 20 with a female patient from Wuhan, Hubei province, the Covid-19 epidemic. However, the rate of infection was not alarming until February 18, when the 61-year-old Christian woman of the Tan Thien Dia cult was positive for the virus.

Tan Thien Dia said that as of yesterday, 833 of the 1,848 sectarian members tested in Daegu were positive for nCoV. Meanwhile, the remaining 7,446 members in this city are awaiting testing.

The Covid-19 epidemic has been reported in 48 countries and territories, leaving more than 82,000 people infected, of which at least 2,800 people have died and nearly 33,000 have been cured. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), yesterday announced the first time there were more cases of nCoV infection outside China than in China, marking a change in the course of the epidemic.