The Central Defense Response Headquarters announced that as of 0 o'clock on the 26th, the number of new corona 19 confirmed cases increased by 583, accumulating 32,000,318 people.
The number of people increased by 201 from the previous day (382), skipping the 400 level and going straight to the late 500 level.
The record for 500 new confirmed cases is almost 9 months, just 265 days, since March 6 (518), when the'first pandemic' was in full swing.
The scale of this'third epidemic' goes beyond the'second epidemic' centered on the metropolitan area in August to September and is approaching the level of the first pandemic.
Of the 583 new confirmed cases that day, 553 were local and 30 were from overseas.
Local infections are leading the rapid spread.
This is due to the exponential increase in the number of confirmed cases as group infections involving schools, academies, churches, nursing hospitals, saunas, entertainment bars, military bases, prisons, aerobics academies, and various small groups continued throughout the country.
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