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Corona has returned to the situation in late February and early March. As of today (16th) 0 o'clock, there are 267 new confirmed cases in Korea for one day. In particular, the red light was on in the metropolitan area. For the first time in Seoul, more than 100 corona confirmed cases per day. That's exactly 141 people. Authorities have warned that the reinvention has begun and that damage can be reduced by tightening the reins. First of all, I will summarize the overall situation.

This is reporter Kim Hyung-rae.

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The number of confirmed cases in Korea exceeded 200 per day, 158 days after the spread of group infection at the Guro call center in Seoul.

The situation in the metropolitan area is particularly serious.

More than half of all new confirmed cases, 141 people, came from Seoul, and only 240 people were confirmed in the metropolitan area, including 96 in Gyeonggi and 8 in Incheon.

[Seo Jeong-hyeop/Seoul Mayor Authority: I can tell you that this is a critical situation that we have never experienced before, surpassing the current crisis level.]

The largest group infection scale is the Sarangjeil Church in Seoul today, with 190 people today. We have received additional confirmation.

Cumulative confirmed cases amount to 249.

As for Woori First Church in Yongin, 126 people have been confirmed so far, and the number of people related to Starbucks in Paju has increased to 40.

The problem is that the nth infection is gradually increasing outside the metropolitan area.

[Night neunghu / Secretary of Health and Human Services. The current aspect is seen as the early stages of a large-scale re-trendy (if prevent the spread) is a serious damage to the national radio waves and rapid increase of patients could be caused -

Defense officials in Seoul And the residents of Gyeonggi Province were asked to refrain from going out and not visiting other areas for the next two weeks.

In addition, following Seoul and Gyeonggi-do, Busan also decided to raise social distancing to the second stage from tomorrow.

(Video coverage: Hwang In-seok, Kim Tae-hoon, Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Park Ji-in, CG: Ryu Sang-soo)