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move on to the news of Corona 19.
The number of new confirmed cases in Korea decreased slightly to 400 for three days in a row, compared to when there were 500, but it is difficult to say that the spreading trend has been reduced.
Early this month, the Korean Medical Association recommended raising the distance to three stages even temporarily.
Reporter Han Ji-yeon reports.
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From the 26th to the 28th of last month, when 500 new confirmed cases were maintained, the number of tests averaged 21,000, and the number of tests on weekends decreased by more than 7,000, and the number of confirmed cases fell to 400.
However, yesterday (30th), the number of tests per day increased again to 20,000, but the number of new confirmed cases remained at 400.
The positive rate, calculated as compared to the number of tests, also fell from 3.07% the previous day to 1.98%.
However, it is not a situation to be relieved.
Of the 118 new outbreaks in the last month, when we looked at the time from the first patient's onset of symptoms to being confirmed, 23 cases took more than a week, accounting for 19.5%.
One in five means that the initial proliferation blockade failed.
[Kwon Jun-wook/President of the National Institute of Health: There is a case where it is 16 days from symptom onset to diagnosis.
If you have any suspicious symptoms, the people will be tested promptly (Please get it.)]
The winter season is more favorable for the survival of the virus, and it is the end of the year where people exchange frequently, and it is also a part of concern that outside activities of test takers are expected after the entrance exam.
For this reason, the Korean Medical Association recommended to the government that it is necessary to temporarily raise the distance to three stages, saying that the outbreak should be cut off through a strong distance of one to two weeks in the beginning of December.