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were 615 new corona19 confirmed yesterday (6th), recording 600 again for two consecutive days.
There is a growing concern that the number of confirmed cases does not decrease even though the test volume is small because it is the weekend, and that 1,000 people may be confirmed a day after a week or two.
Reporter Nam Joo-hyun delivers.
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Of the 615 new confirmed cases, 580 were domestic cases excluding 35 confirmed cases from overseas.
When looking at the domestic outbreaks by region, 422 were confirmed in the metropolitan area, and 158 were found in the non-metropolitan area.
The number of severely ill patients increased by 1 to 126.
At the nursing hospital in Ulsan, 53 more were confirmed, and the cumulative number of confirmed patients was close to 100, and at the nursing home in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, 2 more inmates, workers, and 6 additional patients were confirmed, and the number of confirmed cases exceeded 30.
In Gaegun-myeon, Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, where a group infection occurred, three more were confirmed, resulting in a total of 47.
The number of cumulative confirmed cases related to restaurants in Jongno-gu, Seoul increased by 17 in Seoul alone, exceeding 90.
Health officials have described the current situation as a total crisis in which it is difficult to determine where the peak of the third epidemic will rise.
[Park Neung-hoo/Minister of Health and Welfare: If it is a trend now, the pessimistic prospect that the number of confirmed cases per day may exceed 1,000 may become a reality in a week or two.]
The authorities repeatedly urged them to follow the quarantine regulations well, saying that if they do not catch the spread of the metropolitan area even in phase 2.5, an explosive epidemic across the country could become a reality and the medical system could collapse.