The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) announced that it will do its utmost to respond to COVID-19 by reorganizing its COVID-19 task force and forming a public-private council with experts.

The agency expects the outbreak to continue until the end of August.

On the 13th, the KCDA said, “The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients began to increase from the end of June in the COVID-19 sampling surveillance. 861 were reported in the first week of August, approaching the peak of 875 hospitalized patients that was recorded in February this year. Considering the epidemic trend over the past 2 years, the number of COVID-19 patients is expected to increase until the end of Aug