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Corona 19 patients increased by one more today (18 days). A woman in her 60s who lives in Daegu, the first patient in Yeongnam region. Like the 29 and 30 patients identified yesterday, they have not been to foreign countries recently and have not been in contact with people who have been infected.

First, reporter Kim Hye-min will summarize the government announcement.

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An additional 31 confirmed patients were 61-year-old Korean women living in Daegu.

Because of fever and pneumonia, I was diagnosed with Corona19 at 3:30 pm yesterday at Daegu Suseong-gu Public Health Center and confirmed today.

Currently, I am isolated in Daegu Medical Center negative pressure room.

Health officials said the patient had a chill since February 7, and had a fever of more than 38 degrees on the 10th.

On the 14th, I was diagnosed with pneumonia as a result of an imaging test at a Korean hospital admitted in a traffic accident, but I received antibiotic treatment only.

[Eun-Kyung Chung / Head of Disease Control Division: It would be difficult for us to suspect corona 19 in the hospital because it is a general patient who has no travel history and no contact.]

Patient 31 lived in Yeongnam, where there were no confirmed patients, and has never visited a foreign country since December last year.

We haven't seen any contact with another sponsor.

As with the previous 29 and 30 cases, the path and cause of infection are not known.

This is why concerns are rising that community infections, which are most alert to the authorities, are progressing rapidly.

[Eun-Kyung Chung / Head of Disease Control Division: Currently, an immediate response team of the Prevention and Prevention Center and the local government are conducting an epidemiological investigation of infectious agents, infection routes, and contacts.]

Meanwhile, the cumulative number of discharged domestically increased to 12, after 12, 14 patients, who had been contacted with a medical examiner in Japan, were discharged after being diagnosed with a sick Chinese husband and his wife.

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