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number of corona19 confirmed in Korea exceeded 50 for two consecutive days. Among the additional confirmed cases, 47 confirmed cases from Korea, that is, domestic cases. This is the highest number in 41 days since the 3rd of last month. If the number of domestic outbreaks exceeds an average of 50 per day for two weeks, the level of social distancing can be increased one step further from the current stage 1 to stage 2. Health officials say it is a very dangerous situation, especially in the metropolitan area, where confirmed cases continue to appear in churches, markets and schools.

The first news, reporter Ahn Sang-woo.

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Jukjeon High School in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do.


Until the day before yesterday (11th), 3 students of this school and 2 students from nearby high schools were confirmed.

It was confirmed that some of them went to movie theaters and PC cafes together.

Today, 3 additional people were confirmed, including 2 parents of confirmed students at Jukjeon High School and 1 student at the same school.

The school is conducting diagnostic tests on more than 400 students and teachers, and the number of confirmed patients can increase as confirmed parents run academy in nearby Bundang.

Student infections are also continuing outside the metropolitan area.

Second grade students were confirmed yesterday at Busan Mechanical Technical High, and two more students from the same grade today were confirmed, and one middle school student was confirmed in Ulsan.


Right now, the health authorities expressed concern about the summer vacation and the upcoming second semester.

[Kwon Joon-wook/President of the National Institute of Health: We will discuss the current situation in the metropolitan area in connection with the school opening department and based on these areas.]

Infection through the church is also continuing, and the Lord's Sam Church in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province so far. All 11 people were confirmed.

One of them is working at a company that packs and repackages masks in Gimpo in large quantities, and six of its colleagues were also confirmed by Corona 19.

It is known that the masks that the confirmed patients worked on are not available on the market.

In addition, at Sarangjeil Church in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, where meetings were once banned for violating the quarantine rules, six confirmed patients came out from yesterday, and health authorities are tracking the path of infection.

(Video coverage: Choi Ho-jun and Park Dong-ryul, video editing: Park Ji-in)