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223 new corona 19 confirmed patients were added a day yesterday (15th).
Since last weekend, more than 200 new cases have emerged for three days in a row, and health authorities are considering raising the distance in areas where the spread of infection is evident.
Reporter Ahn Sang-woo on the report.
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Among the new confirmed cases that occurred yesterday, 193 cases were infected in Korea.
By region, 128 people were concentrated in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon.
As of yesterday's noon, six additional people who were quarantined in connection with the Ace Hope Care Center in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, were infected, resulting in a cumulative number of cases of 65, and the group infection related to Yeoksam Station in Gangnam-gu spread to work, acquaintances, and family, resulting in 31 related confirmed cases.
65 people also occurred in non-capital regions such as Gangwon, Gyeongbuk, and Jeonnam.
At Chonnam National University Hospital, where the first confirmed cases came out on the 13th, 7 more were infected, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases became 8.
The group infection that started at a meeting of acquaintances in Inje-gun, Gangwon-do increased the number of related confirmed cases to 29 as 8 additional contacts were confirmed.
Unlike large-scale infections that occurred in religious facilities and clubs, recent cases of infection have been small, but sporadic, in daily spaces such as acquaintances, workplaces, and schools.
[Park Neung-hoo/Minister of Health and Welfare: Considering the new infection pattern of daily infection and the rate of infection that is not decreasing, we are at a critical crossroads in which we need to adjust the distance stage.]
Meanwhile, the number of deaths related to Corona 19 infection has increased by one more. So far, 494 people have been killed.