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New corona19 confirmed by 43 people during the day yesterday (16th). In particular, in the three days in Daejeon, 13 new confirmers emerged, and the mass infection spread.

Kwak Sang is a reporter's report.

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were 43 new corona19 confirmed patients in Korea yesterday, and the cumulative confirmed number increased to 12,198.

Among the new confirmers, 12 foreign inflows and 31 local outbreaks were tentatively counted.

The cases of regional outbreaks were 12 in Seoul, 11 in Gyeonggi, and 2 in Incheon.

In addition, five people from Daejeon and one from Chungnam were confirmed.

In particular, concerns about health authorities are growing as a result of collective infections in Daejeon following the metropolitan area.

In Daejeon, five people who were not included in the statistics yesterday received additional confirmations, increasing the number of new patients to 13 over the course of three days.

Ten of them were identified as contacts of women in their 60s who visited an unregistered multi-level company briefing session on the 10th and were confirmed.

It is actually the first time that there have been more than 10 cases in other regions since the mass infection that began in last month.

[Kim Kang-lip/Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare: In the case of the Daejeon area, the spread of infection is increasing, so we are dispatching epidemiological investigation teams from the center to try to stop further infections.]

The health authorities insisted that visiting sellers be vulnerable to infectious diseases due to frequent group education using public relations officers.