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1,046 New Corona 19 Cases … Thousands Again in Three Days
1,030 national occurrence 16 overseas influx
802 in the metropolitan area … Seoul 520, Gyeonggi 250, Incheon 32
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The number of new confirmed corona19 cases surpassed 1,000 again in three days. Special quarantine measures are being implemented during the end of the year and the New Year holidays, but there is no significant decrease. We will try to find out more by connecting journalists. Reporter Shin Hyun-jun! After the Christmas holidays, the number of new patients, which had dropped to 800, increased again, right? At 0 o’clock today, there were 1,046 new cases in total. 238 people increased compared to the previous day. When looking at the route of infection, there were 1,030 domestic outbreaks and 16 foreign entries. There are still many infected people in the metropolitan area. Seoul 520, Gyeonggi 250 and Incheon 32 with 802 new patients. In the non-metropolitan area, patients came from all 17 provinces across the country, including 30 in Daejeon, 29 in Daegu and 28 in Gyeongbuk. Of the 16 confirmed foreign entries, 5 were confirmed during the quarantine stage. Quarantine authorities noted that there are more negative factors for the current situation. It was revealed that the risk of daily infection remains high due to the high positive rate or the unknown infection route rate. He also cited as a negative factor that mutant viruses will one day lead the global epidemic, making the response to Corona 19 increasingly difficult. However, it was positively evaluated that the number of new cases in multipurpose facilities is decreasing and the reproduction rate is also decreasing. It was analyzed that distance distancing is a rebuttal that is beginning to take effect. The death toll increased by 40 in one day, is it the highest since the Corona 19 outbreak? The number of additional deaths increased from 40 to 859. 28 people, or 70% of the deaths, were cases in nursing hospitals. Quarantine authorities said the death toll occurred this particular month, and the scale of the outbreak is growing, and the loss of lives of older people in vulnerable facilities such as nursing homes and nursing homes appears to be lagging behind. However, he explained that the sudden increase in the number of deaths was also affected by delays in reporting deaths during the Christmas season. As for the date of death, he revealed that 13 people died yesterday, 11 people died on the 27th and 16 people died before that time. In the midst of this, yesterday a total of 48,000 tests were carried out in the temporary screening test in the metropolitan area, and 119 people were found in hiding. Consequently, the government decided to extend the operation of the temporary detection laboratory, which was scheduled until the 3rd of next month, for another two weeks. Meanwhile, the quarantine authorities also announced the results of a follow-up investigation of a mutant virus from the UK, right? Quarantine authorities say the virus has been confirmed in the UK in only three families who have entered the country so far. They were confirmed positive when they entered the country on the 22nd, raising the possibility of transmission within the aircraft. As a result of the epidemiological investigation, 17 people were contacted. All are in-flight contacts, with 12 crew members and 5 passengers. To date, all test results have been confirmed to be negative and self-isolation and symptom monitoring are currently underway. Quarantine authorities said that to block the entry of mutant viruses into the country, they have tightened the fever standard for foreigners and expanded diagnostic tests before quarantine. He added that flights departing from the UK will be temporarily suspended until January 7, making it mandatory to send a negative PCR confirmation and restricting the issuance of visas to the UK and South Africa. Another family from England, who were suspected of a mutant virus, explained that they are currently undergoing a full genome analysis. YTN Shin Hyun-joon at the Ministry of Social Affairs[[email protected]]is. ※ ‘Your report becomes news’ YTN awaits your valuable report.
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