<Anchor> The number of

new patients with Corona 19 announced yesterday (13th) was 56, of which 47 in Korea, the highest in 41 days. The health authorities announced that the situation in the metropolitan area is more severe than the case of a group infection from Itaewon or Coupang distribution center.

This is reporter Kim Hyung-rae.

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Jukjeon High School in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, until yesterday, 4 students and 2 parents of this school, and 2 students at nearby high schools were confirmed to have Corona 19.

Some of the students went to movie theaters together, and confirmed parents are known to run academies nearby, so the number of confirmed cases may increase.

With four confirmed students in the Busan Mechanical Technical High School and one middle school student in Ulsan, concerns about summer vacation and the upcoming second semester are growing.

Infection through the church is also continuing, and 11 people related to the Sam Church of the Lord in Gimpo and 6 colleagues at the mask repacking company working for the confirmed church members were confirmed one after another.

In the case of the metropolitan area, the biggest problem is that asymptomatic patients in schools, churches, and restaurants are causing additional infections before confirmation.

[Kwon Jun-wook/President of the National Institute of Health: Seoul and other metropolitan areas are in an instant. Because, not a chain spread due to a single source of infection, the recent pattern is asymptomatic, the quiet transmission of mild infection (because it is occurring.)] In the last

two weeks, the rate of not knowing the infection route has risen to 13.4%, based on the first step of social distancing. It exceeded less than 5% of phosphorus.

Authorities say that if things get worse, they have no choice but to raise the level of social distancing to the second level.