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There were 47 Korean Corona19 patients a day yesterday (5 days), so far, there have been 1,284 confirmed patients. After the first patient came out of the Sincheonji Church in Daegu two months ago, the number of domestic patients increased rapidly. Later, as you can see, the additional confirmers fell below 50 in 46 days. However, health officials have warned that it is difficult to foresee the trend, and that we can increase the number of patients at any time like Europe or the United States.

Reporter Han Ji-yeon.

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When the number of new confirmed patients fell to 50 or less per day, which was around 100, the government has drawn that the 'trend' of the outbreak has not changed.

This is because the diagnostic tests that have been conducted more than 10,000 times have been reduced by 6,000 on the weekends when hospitals were closed.

The government still stressed that the situation is severe.

[Kim Kang-lip / Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare: Explosive community infections seen in Europe and the United States can occur at any time in our society, and in this case, there is still a serious risk of leading to a collapse of the medical system and an increase in mortality.]

The biggest risk factors selected by the government are 'overseas inflow' and 'latent infection in the community'.

In fact, in the past two weeks, more than half of the new confirmed cases have been related to foreign influx, and when combined with high-risk group facilities such as hospitals and nursing homes, it is close to 80%.

The government says it will apply the most severe penalties stipulated by law to violators of self-containment and will strengthen efforts to find hidden victims in hospitals and nursing homes.

In addition, last weekend, the number of people moved increased by 20% compared to the end of February, and he repeatedly emphasized that he would actively participate in placing high-intensity social streets until the 19th.

(Video coverage: Mincheol Kim, Video editing: Jinhoon Park)