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The number of patients in Korea increased by 100 more than yesterday (24th), reaching 9137 patients. More than half of the additional confirmed patients were confirmed after going abroad. If you look at the region you've been to, Europe was the largest with 29, followed by America with 13 rapidly expanding. So, from the day after, the government mandated that everyone entering the country from the United States should be in quarantine for two weeks.

For more information, reporter Nam Joo-hyun will tell.

<Reporter> From 00:00 AM, immigrants from the United States will have to undergo a corona19 test at the airport and self-isolate for 2 weeks if there is a voice.

Even if there are no symptoms, both domestic and long-term foreign residents are subject to mandatory self-isolation for two weeks.

[Jung Eun-Kyung / Disease Management Headquarters: (In the airport) Quarantine director's quarantine notice is issued in accordance with the Quarantine Law.

However, it is not a strong measure to get all Corona19 tested, like those from Europe. For this reason, the quarantine authorities cited the risk in the United States, that is, there are still fewer diagnoses per 10,000 immigrants than in Europe.

In addition, the domestic diagnostic test ability is up to 20,000 per day, but it was also considered that it would be a burden for quarantine if more than 2,500 US immigrants were tested every day.

[Sung Yeong-Rae, spokesman of the Ministry of Health and Welfare: Please consider that there is a limit to the total amount of focus on diagnostic tests in groups with high risk.]

In the midst of this, Seocho-gu, Seoul, said that all residents will be subject to a Corona 19 inspection immediately upon returning home.

The move to strengthen the quarantine can be further expanded, especially among local governments with a high proportion of new arrivals and overseas inspections.

(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Park Ji-in)