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The number of new corona patients19 has dropped to a median range of 600.
Although the spread trend is slowing somewhat, it is interpreted as the effect of a 30% decrease in the number of diagnostic tests during the New Year holidays, so it is too early to alleviate it.
This is reporter Shin Jeong-yeon.
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The Central Defense Response Headquarters announced that at 0 o’clock today, the number of new confirmed corona19 cases increased by 657, and the cumulative number of patients was 63,244.
The 600-person record is the first in 23 days since last month’s 11th.
The number of new patients, which had repeatedly fluctuated around 1,000 people, went from 800 yesterday to 600 people, which is interpreted as the effect that the number of holiday tests decreased by about 30% on working days.
As there are still large and small group infections everywhere, the size of the infection can grow back at any time.
Regarding the route of infection of the new confirmed cases today, 641 local outbreaks and 16 foreign entries.
The number of confirmed cases of local outbreaks, a key indicator of the distance stage adjustment, averaged 888 per day over the past week.
Compared to the one that topped 1,000 last month, it has dropped significantly.
The number of deaths increased by 20 from the day before to 962 in total, and the average death rate in Korea is 1.52%.
The government has decided to extend the ‘Social Distance’, which is the current stage 2.5 in the metropolitan area and the second stage in the non-metropolitan area, by two weeks until the 17th.
The ‘Special New Year’s Prevention Measures’ were also expanded, and as of tomorrow the ban on private gatherings of 5 or more people, which had been applied only to the metropolitan area, was extended to the entire country.
This is Jeongyeon Shin from MBC News.
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