<Anchor> On the
last day of the Chuseok holiday, the number of new corona19 confirmed cases was 64, keeping the double digits for the fourth day.
However, there are concerns that the number of confirmed cases may increase after the holiday is over as there was a large shift during the Chuseok period.
Reporter Park Chan-beom reports.
<Reporter> The number of
new confirmed patients recorded 113 on the 30th of last month, the first day of the holiday, and has maintained a double digit for the fourth day.
Of the confirmed cases added yesterday (3rd), 47 outbreaks in Korea and 17 inflows from overseas.
The number of confirmed cases by region was 16 in Seoul, 14 in Gyeonggi and 5 in Incheon, 35 in the metropolitan area alone.
In the non-metropolitan area, Busan was the largest with 5, followed by 3 in Gyeongbuk, 2 in Daejeon, and 1 in each of Ulsan and Chungbuk.
The number of deaths increased by one yesterday, so far 421 people have died while undergoing treatment.
The number of gastric and severe patients decreased by 2 to 105.
The quarantine authorities are concerned about'quiet propagation' as there were large-scale movements of returnees, returnees and travelers during the Chuseok holiday.
Considering that the corona 19 incubation period is an average of 5.2 days, if you are infected during the holiday season, there is a possibility that symptoms will manifest from this week.
Meanwhile, the number of government-supplied flu vaccines suspected of being exposed to room temperature increased by 13 to 2,303 as of yesterday.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are at least 280 hospitals and clinics nationwide that have been vaccinated so far.