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Yesterday (1st) 30 new corona confirmed patients were added each day. In particular, a group infection of'black blinker', which did not know where it started, spread to Seolleung and Yangjae in Gangnam, Seoul, and nine people have been infected so far.

This is Jung Seong-jin.

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man in his 40s who was confirmed by Yongin on the 27th of last month. Quarantine authorities have not yet identified the man's initial path of infection.

It is a so-called'black blinker' infection, and the number of local infections through these men has increased to nine.

On the 22nd of last month, two employees meeting with a man at a cafe near Seolleung Station in Gangnam were positive, and another second infection was added.

The next day, the man visited a restaurant in Yangjae-dong, where one acquaintance and one restaurant employee were confirmed, and three of them had a second infection, causing a total of nine people.

As of 0 o'clock today, there are 8 local infections.

It was stable in the first two digits since yesterday, but sporadic small group infections continue in Seoul and Gyeonggi, especially in the metropolitan area.


In Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, a 1-year-old baby was judged positive today.

Nevertheless, the authorities said that the number of confirmed cases in Korea in the past two weeks was 16.9, down 4.5 from the previous two weeks.

Welfare Minister Park Neung-Hoo sees this summer vacation as a watershed that will determine the success or failure of quarantine management in the second half of the year.

[Park Neung-Hoo/ Minister of Health and Welfare: Avoid dense, close and confined environments, and even if you do outdoor activities, wear masks and keep your social distance a bit excessive (I encourage you.)]

Second return from Iraq on the 31st of last month . As a result of the diagnostic test for 72 workers, 22 were positive and treated.

(Video coverage: Sunghwa Jung, Video editing: Hojin Kim)