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were 288 new confirmed cases announced yesterday (20th), already recording three digits for the week. It is the opinion of the health authorities that it is not enough to raise social distancing to the third level, but some local governments are actually taking steps equivalent to the third step, such as the Seoul City banning the assembly of 10 or more people.

This is reporter Ahn Sang-woo.

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The number of confirmed cases related to Sarangjeil Church in Seoul increased by 53 to 676 in total.

The quarantine authorities are conducting epidemiological investigations on 150 places such as another church, corporation, hospital, etc. where confirmed congregants have visited.

Eleven people were also added at Woori Jeil Church in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, and the cumulative confirmed number increased to 165.

The number of confirmed cases in the metropolitan area where the second stage of distancing is being implemented has exceeded 100 for six consecutive days.

[Kim Kang-rip / Vice Minister of Health and Welfare: It is spreading and spreading to families, workplaces, and multi-use facilities. To stop the spread of infection with a sense of crisis of desperate despair... .] The

health authorities are in the position that it is still too early to raise the distance to the third stage.

The number of confirmed cases per day exceeds 100 over two weeks, and the phenomenon of'doubling', in which the number of new confirmed cases more than doubles, should occur at least twice a week, but it is not that much yet.

In the third stage of distancing, all activities other than essential economic activities are prohibited.

[Dong-Hoon Lee/Former member of the Korean Medical Association's H1N1 Flu Countermeasures: (3 steps) The government is bound to have a burden to do it in a lump sum. (But) Wouldn't it be necessary to preemptively in areas where a lot of (diagnosed) occurs... .] In

fact, Seoul has completely banned gatherings of more than 10 people from today to the 30th, and Gijang-gun, Busan, has already implemented measures equivalent to the third stage of distancing.