[사회]Start of large-scale examinations in the nursing hospitals of the metropolitan area … 76 new patients per day

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The number of new COVID-19 patients per day is 76, keeping the number in two digits for four consecutive days.

However, the possibility of spread remains, with 14 new patients confirmed in Busan alone after infection in a small group.

In the midst of this, a large-scale examination for metropolitan area nursing hospitals began today.

Connect with reporters. Reporter Seung-Hoon Lee!

From today began the large-scale examination of the nursing hospitals of the metropolitan area, right?

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So is.

Recently, large-scale examinations for workers and users began in nursing hospitals, psychiatric hospitals and nursing facilities in the metropolitan area.

The target audience is about 160,000.

Earlier, quarantine authorities said there is concern about harm to those vulnerable to infection, as cases of group infection have been reported in nursing hospitals protecting older people with underlying illnesses.

Furthermore, as the total number of testers increases in accordance with the total number of tests, the number of new patients is likely to increase from now on, so the quarantine authorities are also increasing tensions.

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Also summarize the trend of new patients identified so far.

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At 0 o’clock, there are 76 new cases per day.

It has been in double digits for four days in a row, and the number of new patients has dropped significantly since yesterday when it was close to a hundred.

However, compared to the drop below 50 on the 16th, it is a situation that repeats the rise and fall.

The cumulative number of patients is now 25,275.

Regarding the route of infection, 50 cases occurred in Korea and 26 cases were imported from abroad.

Domestic outbreaks are still concentrated in the metropolitan area.

Gyeonggi 15, Seoul 11 ​​and Incheon 4, 30 new patients a day only in the metropolitan area.

In particular, 14 new patients left Busan as a consequence of an infection in a nursing hospital group.

Additionally, there were 2 new confirmed cases in Daejeon, 2 in Chungnam, 2 in Gwangju, and Gangwon in Gwangju, and there were no new cases in the remaining cities.

Of the 26 confirmed international flows, 12 were confirmed during the quarantine stage.

The number of patients with severe gastric disorders increased from 1 to 78.

YTN Lee Seung-hoon from the Ministry of Social Affairs[[email protected]]is.

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