[사회]Daily Confirmation Record High … Eastern Detention Center Confirmed Emergency



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The number of new confirmed corona 19 cases in Korea surpassed 1,200 for the first time.

The impact of nearly 300 confirmed cases a day at the East Seoul Detention Center was significant, but correctional authorities also took an emergency.

Connect reporters. Reporter Kim Kyung-soo!

There were more than 1,200 confirmed cases a day, and this is the largest number since the first confirmed crown19 in Korea last January, right?

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Yes, that is correct.

At 0 o’clock today, there were 1,241 confirmed cases per day.

It was 900 people the day before, and then it increased to 1000 people in one day.

There are a hundred more than the previous highest number of 1,000, 97 on the 20th.

Out of 1,000,241 people, there were 1,216 local outbreaks and 25 foreign entries.

By region, the infection continues in the metropolitan area.

With 550 in Seoul, 257 in Gyeonggi and 55 in Incheon, accounting for 70% of the total confirmed cases, the rapid increase in Seoul is remarkable.

The number of daily confirmed cases in Seoul increased by more than 200 people since yesterday.

Only 288 people were confirmed at the East Seoul Detention Center.

This is the first time that more than 500 cases have been confirmed in Seoul.

Outside of the metropolitan area, Chungnam was the largest with 79 people, and there were also confirmed cases in 17 provinces across the country, including 67 in Gyeongbuk and 42 in Chungbuk.

The number of deaths from Corona 19 increased by 17 to 773, and the number of gastric and critically ill patients increased by 20 from yesterday to 311.

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A notable part of today’s confirmation status is that a ton of confirmed cases came out of correctional facilities.

Did you come up with a countermeasure?

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At 0 o’clock today, the Ministry of Justice said 286 prisoners and two additional employees were confirmed at the Eastern Detention Center in Seoul.

This is the result of a second comprehensive inspection of employees and detainees yesterday (23).

288 were more than half of the 550 confirmed cases in Seoul yesterday.

It is estimated that the confirmed cases added this time were infected through close contact with the confirmed cases in the previous primary examination.

According to official statistics from quarantine authorities, there were 498 confirmed cases related to the Eastern Detention Center, approaching 500.

Consequently, 15 buildings of the East Detention Center have been established as a “cohort quarantine section” that blocks the building itself.

Quarantine authorities and the Ministry of Justice said: ‘To prevent further spread, special inspections were conducted at 50 correctional facilities across the country and, in the future, all new inmates from detention centers will be subjected to rapid tests. of antigens.

In addition, he explained that if at least one confirmed person occurs in the penitentiary, a full inspection will be carried out on the staff and prisoners of the center.

So far, the Ministry of Social Affairs has handed it over.

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