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were 125 additional confirmed cases, exceeding 100 for two consecutive days following yesterday (23rd).

The number of newly infected people in Korea has also increased to three digits after five days, and the quarantine authorities are deepening their grievances ahead of the holiday season.

From the 28th of this month to the 11th of next month, the government will announce detailed measures for social distancing to be applied during the Chuseok special quarantine period tomorrow.



Reporter Han Ji-yeon will give you more details.



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is a daycare center in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, where 13 confirmed cases have been

reported

so far.



Two days ago, one teacher was first confirmed, and then the students and their families were infected one after another.



[Neighboring residents: I was scared and afraid that our children would be infected with it.

Even though the teachers are like meetings, I would be grateful if you would refrain from a little...

,] The



number of confirmed cases related to Seoul Severance Hospital increased to 58.



In Park Ae-won, a mental health facility in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, 10 additional inmates were confirmed, and a total of 39 were confirmed.



15 confirmed cases were also found at the Yemaru Day Care Center, an elderly care facility in Dobong-gu, Seoul.



The quarantine authorities said that the spread of infection was particularly serious through briefing sessions related to door-to-door sales companies.



After 25 people were infected at the briefing session of Cordyceps in Daegu, a secondary infection resulted in 5 additional infections from the Cheonan door-to-door sales company, and seven more as the company's officials visited another door-to-door sales company.



[Lee Sang-won/Director of Epidemiological Investigation and Analysis, Central Defense Response Headquarters: This remarkable infectivity is a good example of how Corona 19 continues to cause epidemics everywhere.] The



government is releasing detailed guidelines for social distancing during the special quarantine period for Chuseok tomorrow. It is likely to include some reinforced steps over current distancing two-step measures to reliably reduce small-scale infections.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Hwang Ji-young, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)