[사회]1,000 people were registered for four days in a row … “The scale of infection will continue”

[앵커]

The number of Korean Corona 19 patients registered 1,000 for four consecutive days.

It is spreading in all directions, reaching more than 300 people a day for the first time in non-metropolitan areas.

Quarantine authorities expect this tax to continue for the time being.

Reporter Seung-bae Lee reports.

[기자]

The number of Corona 19 patients in Korea has rarely decreased, crossing over a thousand people.

Since it first topped 1,000 people on the 13th, it has topped 1,000 for five days a week.

While the pandemic still continues in the metropolitan area, it is becoming increasingly severe in non-metropolitan areas.

Of the 1.29 cases in Korea, the number of non-metropolitan patients increased to 337, 32.8%.

It is the first time since the first pandemic in Daegu and Gyeongbuk in February and March that it showed 300 people in the non-metropolitan area.

The number of confirmed cases of local outbreaks on average per day during the last week, a key indicator of the distancing stage, also increased to 948.9.

The problem is that the scale of these infections will continue for the time being.

Currently, the reproduction rate of the infection is 1.2, which means that each infected person infects 1.2 people.

It is difficult to say that the rate of spread has decreased until the reproduction rate of the infection falls below 1.

[천은미 / 이대 목동병원 호흡기내과 교수 : 약간의 거리두기 효과에 의해서 많이 증가하지는 않지만 분명히 지금은 정점이 아니고 더 올라갈 수도 있고요. 비수도권까지 확산되고 있기 때문에 우리가 생각하는 것보다 훨씬 많은 확진자들이 있다는 거죠.]

Also, as quarantine authorities are conducting preventive tests, more hidden infected people are expected.

[임숙영 / 중앙방역대책본부 상황총괄단장 : 선제적으로 이 감염원을 찾아내게 되면 당분간 현재 수준의 확진자 수 규모는 지속되지 않을까 생각을 하고 있습니다.]

The government emphasized that now is the ‘third pandemic crisis’ and that it is time to put all efforts to prevent the rapid spread of nursing homes and religious facilities.

This is YTN Lee Seung-bae.

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