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were 121 new confirmed cases of Corona 19 in Korea that were announced yesterday (22nd).
After a week, it came back to three digits, and group infections continue in places like nursing homes for the elderly.
Yesterday, 35 people were confirmed at a nursing home in Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do.
This is Nam Joo-hyun.
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resident in the 80s of a nursing home in Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do was confirmed yesterday morning.
As a result of examining all 37 residents and nursing facility workers by the health authorities, 34 additional people were confirmed, excluding 3 workers.
A total of eight nursing facilities are in operation in the building where this nursing home is located, and two out of them in August have group infections, raising concerns about further spread.
At Namcheon Hospital, Gunpo, Gyeonggi-do, eight confirmed patients, including caregivers and patients, came out.
Three family members were confirmed after the first confirmed person came out in Gunpo on the 20th, and one of the family members was the hospital caregiver.
Another 14 people were confirmed at Anyang Elderly Day Care Facility where another family attended.
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the whole building isolated At the Gwangju SRC rehabilitation hospital in Gyeonggi-do, 20 more were confirmed, and the cumulative confirmed number was 106.
At Haeterak Nursing Hospital in Busan, 3 more were tested positive, and the number of confirmed patients increased to 84.
The quarantine authorities said that one worker in a nursing hospital in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul was confirmed during a preemptive total inspection of nursing hospitals and nursing facilities in the metropolitan area.