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We have snow news for today (17th) night.

It would be better to rush to work on Monday.

There were 520 new cases of Corona 19.

It doesn't fall any further, and it keeps staying at 500.

The government's position is that if the ban on private gatherings with more than five people is lifted before the Lunar New Year holidays next month, the number of confirmed cases must be reduced.



The first news, reporter Jeong Seong-jin.



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Over the past week, the average number of new confirmed cases per day has fallen to 516.



That's more than 200 people less than a week ago.



The quarantine authorities said the third epidemic is on the decline, but exceeds the standard for the second stage of distancing.



While group infections through multi-use facilities have decreased, infections through personal contact with confirmed patients account for 45%.



[Son Young-rae / Head of Social Strategy Division, Central Accident Control Center: The current trend is intensively occurring in certain facilities such as churches and nursing hospitals.

.] The



number of confirmed cases related to the Sangju BTJ World Center increased by 7 to 763, and the Jinju International Prayer Center also had more than 100 confirmed cases.



In Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, 10 people, including 7 users, 1 teacher, and 2 family members, were infected in a small tutoring room.



Over 20 group infections were also confirmed in Seongdong-gu, Seoul and nursing homes in Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do.



In particular, the quarantine authorities urged religious facilities that are available for face-to-face worship from tomorrow to strictly limit activities other than regular worship services.



It also announced that it would observe the decline in the future as to whether or not to continue distancing measures, such as banning private gatherings with more than 5 people until the 31st, until the Lunar New Year holidays next month.



[Sae-Kyun Jeong/Prime Minister: We will closely monitor the situation for the next two weeks, and if necessary, we will consider further adjustments of quarantine measures.]



Also, from tomorrow,

we recommend that you

do not lower the tension on quarantine over the easing of quarantine measures in some industries

.

I asked.



(Video coverage: Jung Seong-hwa·Seo Jin-ho, Video editing: Kim Jun-hee)