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Yesterday (21st), 330 new confirmed cases of Corona 19 occurred a day, continuing 300 people for the fifth day.

With the start of the third corona19 epidemic, there is a prospect that the government will soon raise its distance from the metropolitan area to the second stage.



Reporter Nam Joo-hyun.



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Out of the 330 new confirmed cases, 302 were domestic patients excluding 28 from overseas.



By region, 219 people were confirmed in the metropolitan area, and 83 people came out from non-metropolitan areas, including 19 in Gyeongnam and 13 in Jeonnam.



Due to the effect of the weekend, both the number of tests and the total number of confirmed cases decreased from the previous day, and the ratio of confirmed cases to the number of tests increased.



The average number of confirmed cases per day in the last week in the metropolitan area was 189, close to the 2nd stage upgrade standard of 200.



The quarantine authorities believe that the recent spread of infection exceeded the epidemic in Daegu and Gyeongbuk in February and the metropolitan area in August.



This is because serial infections are caused in everyday spaces such as academies and restaurants, and the route of infection is often unclear.



The reproductive index, which shows how many corona19 confirmed patients transmit the virus, also exceeded 1.5, the highest in November.



[Lim Sook-young/Central Defense Countermeasure Headquarters, General Manager: If this trend continues, it is predicted that it will soon reach the 2nd stage of distancing.

It can be said that the situation in which we can face the biggest trend we have so far is the reality.] With the



academic proficiency test coming 11 days in the future, there are continuing criticisms that stronger quarantine measures are needed, so the government has decided to It is worth noting whether to preemptively decide to raise the distance from the area to the second level.