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speed of new confirmation of Corona 19 is getting scaryly steep around the metropolitan area. The number of additional confirmed cases per day in Korea exceeded 50 for two consecutive days, and yesterday (the 13th) more than 100. It is counted that about 160 confirmed cases occurred in the metropolitan area just yesterday. Health authorities are considering ways to increase social distancing to two levels.

Reporter Jeong Gu-hee reports

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is a village in Seojong-myeon, Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do.

Here, only one day yesterday, 31 villagers tested positive for Corona 19.

The 29th confirmed patient in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, stayed in this village from the 8th to the 10th and attended the luck day feast, and a group infection occurred mainly among the residents who attended.

[Jung Dong-gyun/Yangpyeong County head: Currently, an epidemiological investigation team and a mobile screening team visit Seojong-myeon to conduct an in-depth epidemiological investigation and inspection of village residents.]

Of the 61 residents who contacted, 31 were confirmed, 25 were negative, and 5 were retested. Is in progress.

There were 48 additional confirmed cases at Woori First Church in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, and so far, only 93 cases have been confirmed nationwide.

Yesterday's number of confirmed cases in Gyeonggi-do recorded 100, the highest since the corona crisis, and 58 confirmed cases in Seoul.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare said yesterday that there were 138 additional corona19 confirmed cases nationwide from 0 o'clock to 10 p.m. However, if the number of patients announced by each local government by midnight was counted separately, at least 161 additional confirmed cases a day occurred in the metropolitan area only yesterday. Confirmed.

Health authorities are seeing the three-day holiday beginning today as a turning point.

[Jung Eun-kyung/Director of Disease Control: If a large-scale amplification occurs due to a large-scale urban rally, it is such a desperate situation that can spread to the whole country.] The

health authorities are discussing ways to raise social distancing to the second stage. .

If it is upgraded to the second stage, the operation of high-risk facilities such as clubs and karaoke rooms will immediately cease, and meetings of more than 50 people indoors will be prohibited.

Starting today, Seoul and Gyeonggi-do have issued an administrative order to limit collective restrictions on all religious facilities.