<Anchor> The number of

corona 19 confirmed cases increased by 246. It was over 200 again in two days. Since last Friday, the number of confirmed cases has continued to record three digits, with more than 1,000 confirmed cases in the last six days. Among them, 457 people have been infected through the Sarangjeil Church in Seoul so far. Health officials have warned that this week is going to be a major hurdle, saying that this is a bigger crisis than when the Shincheonji group infection was earlier this year.

The first news, reporter Je Hee-won.

<Reporter> Of the

246 new confirmed cases, more than half of 138 are infected with Sarangjeil Church in Seoul.

Since the first confirmed cases were released in this church on the 12th, the cumulative number of confirmed cases alone reached 457.

The number of confirmed cases related to Sarangjeil Church was 282 in Seoul and 119 in Gyeonggi, and most were concentrated in the metropolitan area, but 25 were confirmed in non-metropolitan areas.

The n-th chain infection, starting with this church, is also spreading simultaneously in various places.

One nurse at the Seoul Severance Eye Hospital who visited the church was confirmed yesterday (17th), and a colleague working on the same floor was infected.

In the case of Antioch Church in Nowon-gu, Seoul, where 15 people were confirmed, it was confirmed that one member attended the Sarangjeil Church service.

Seven of the Lotte Home Shopping Media Seoul Center, 4 call centers of Nonghyup Card, 2 call centers of K Kookmin Savings Bank, and 1 Saemaum Nursing Hospital were also identified as confirmed cases of the Sarangjeil Church.

In addition, two soldiers from the Gapyeong military base in Gyeonggi-do, who were classified as contacts of confirmed church members, were also tested positive.

[Kwon Jun-wook/Vice Head of Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters: This epidemic in the metropolitan area, unlike the last Shincheonji epidemic, is highly likely to be GH type, which has a high transmission power of the virus. It is judged that this is a much greater crisis than when the Shincheonji group outbreak in February and March.] The

quarantine authorities said that the church members are distributed in all 17 provinces nationwide, and that there is concern about further spread.

(Video coverage: Gong Jin-gu, video editing: Park Player, CG: Jung Hoe-yoon)

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