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On day 3, medical staff are examining citizens at Corona 19 Screening Clinic at Seo-gu Health Center in Daejeon. Reporter Kim Seong-tae
On the 7th, the number of new coronavirus (Corona 19) infections in Seoul was 144. It has been increasing for the third day.
According to the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters (Bang Dae-bon) that day, the number of confirmed corona 19 cases in Seoul the day before was 144, including 3 from abroad. One more than 143 new cases confirmed on day 5.
The daily number of confirmed cases in Seoul reached 100 in the 31 days from the 7th of last month to the 6th of this month. The number increased to 188 on day 2 and then decreased from 172 to 126 over the next two days. Recently, it increased from 143 to 144 for the third day.
The number of new confirmed cases throughout the country was 372, 21 less than the previous day (393). Local outbreaks were 326 and foreign entries were 46. The decrease in the number of new confirmed cases appears to have been affected by a sharp decrease in the number of tests on weekends compared to weekdays. Although the number of confirmed cases across the country is showing a gradual decline, group outbreaks continue in restaurants, workplaces, hospitals and sports facilities around the time of the holidays.
Group outbreaks continued in everyday spaces such as homes, saunas, churches, and wellness centers. In Gyeonggi-do, 7 people recently tested positive for Corona 19 for the sauna in Dongan-gu, Anyang City. In Gwangju, four families of small church pastors were confirmed, and infected people related to the adult entertainment hall and TCS International School were also confirmed. In Daejeon, the number of confirmed cases related to the Administrative Welfare Center in Busa-dong, Jung-gu increased by eight. In Chungnam, six additional infections were confirmed in relation to a family in Cheongyang-gun. It has also increased the scale of infection in cases of existing outbreaks, such as Seoul Hanyang University Hospital (80 accumulated).
The death toll was 1,471, an increase of 7 from the previous day. The average death rate in Korea is 1.82%. The number of patients with severe gastric disorders was 190, 7 less than the day before. The number of tests per day the previous day was 23,622, which was 2,553 cases less than the 46,175 cases the day before.
Reporter Oh Wonseok [email protected]
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