China News Service, December 17 According to Korean media reports, South Korea’s Central Anti-epidemic Countermeasures Headquarters announced on the 17th that as of 0:00 local time, the country had newly confirmed 1,014 new cases of new crowns, and a total of 46,453 confirmed cases.
South Korea has confirmed more than 1,000 new cases in a single day for two consecutive days.
Among the new cases on that day, 993 were community infections and 21 were imported cases.
In addition, there were 22 new deaths that day, bringing a total of 634 deaths.
On December 14, local time, in Seoul, South Korea, medical staff tested citizens for the new coronavirus.
Recently, in addition to daily spaces such as family and friends gatherings, restaurants, and schools, the epidemic in South Korea has also spread in high-risk facilities such as religious facilities and recuperation facilities.
Coupled with the fact that South Korea has more than 20 new deaths in a single day for the first time, the epidemic situation is extremely severe.
The Korean epidemic prevention department is considering various factors such as economy, and is discussing carefully about raising the epidemic prevention response level to level 3.