<Anchor> As the number of

corona 19 inflows increased significantly, the number of new confirmed persons increased again to 40. The proliferation of non-metropolitan areas is also unsatisfactory, but as the number of infections has increased from overseas, there has been an emergency.

This is reporter Song In-ho.

<Reporter> As

of 00:00, today (23rd), the number of newly confirmed patients increased to 46, and the cumulative number of confirmed patients was 12,484.

Thirty of the new confirmers were 16 times domestically-occupied as examples of foreign inflows.

26 cases of foreign inflows were confirmed during the quarantine process.

Sixteen of these were identified as crew members of Russian-style frozen cargo ships moored at Gamcheon Port in Busan.

It is only a month since the 18th of last month that the number of foreign influx confirmed cases is higher than the local infection cases.

In the case of regional outbreaks, Seoul had 6 people, Gyeonggi and Daejeon each 4, and Incheon and Daegu 1 each.

The reason why many new confirmers came out from the metropolitan area and Daejeon is because infections related to three of Seoul's door-to-door dealers,'Richway' and three Daejeon door-to-door sellers, continue to occur.

As such, as the collective infection from visiting vendors continues to occur everywhere, starting today, it is mandatory to create electronic access lists using QR codes for visiting vendors, distribution centers, buffet restaurants, and large academies.

If the facility violates the prescribed quarantine regulations, it may in fact be subject to administrative measures, such as an order to ban collectively, which means business suspension.

The quarantine authorities are considering ways to determine the detailed criteria by dividing the current distance guidelines into three levels according to the intensity, in preparation for the corona19 epidemic regardless of the season.