<Anchor> The
number of new corona19 confirmed confirmed yesterday (8th) was 143, which was a three-digit number even though the number of tests decreased due to a holiday.
In the case of the metropolitan area, with the increasing number of infections in ordinary daily life such as workplaces and tea houses, the quarantine authorities are considering raising social distancing by 1.5 steps.
This is Han Ji-yeon.
<Reporter> This
is a tea house in Dong-gu, Daegu, where all 6 confirmed cases have been
reported
so far.
On the 6th, a family member of the first confirmed person was infected, and four additional people who had frequent meetings with the first confirmed person were confirmed.
Two more people were infected in Chungnam, Asan workplace-related and Cheonan call center.
As 5 additional people related to Yeoksam Station in Gangnam-gu, Seoul were confirmed, the cumulative number of confirmed cases increased to 11, 8 at the Dongdaemun-gu Ace Hope Care Center and 3 additionally related to Yeongdeungpo Bukuk Securities, respectively. Increased.
Sporadic infections persist throughout everyday life.
From the 1st to the 7th, the daily average number of new confirmed cases in Korea for a week was 88.7, an increase of 1.8 from the previous week.
In the metropolitan area, an average of 65.4 confirmed cases per day occurred in the last week.
[Park Neung-hoo/Minister of Health and Welfare: If the current epidemic continues to spread, there is a growing risk of meeting the standards for raising the distance to step 1.5 in the case of the capital area…
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The government decided to provide masks in various public places and provide 20 million masks to the vulnerable, such as orphanages and elderly people living alone, ahead of the imposition of fines for those who do not wear masks on the 13th.