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As you can see, the number of additional confirmed cases in Korea exceeded 1,000 for two consecutive days.

As the number of patients is growing steeply, health authorities are struggling to arrange beds, but they are not able to keep up with the pace of the increase in confirmed cases.

Especially in recent years, the corona is spreading rapidly, mainly in nursing homes and religious facilities.

This week, 363 people were confirmed through nursing homes for four days.

Two weeks ago, 75 patients came out for a week in nursing homes across the country, which is nearly five times higher than that.

Also, the number of confirmed people at religious facilities during the same period increased by about five times.

What's more worrying is that most of the confirmed people are older than 60 years of age or are weak.



This is Jeong Seong-jin.



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third pandemic, the place where the largest number of group infections was confirmed is in nursing hospitals.



Today (17th), 20 additional patients were confirmed at a nursing hospital in Guro-gu, Seoul, and 6 additional patients were confirmed at a nursing hospital in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do.



The spread of religious facilities is also a problem.



A group infection that started in a church in Dangjin, Chungcheongnam-do spread to religious facilities in Seosan and Daejeon, and 119 confirmed cases occurred, and in Jeju Island, the number of confirmed cases related to the cathedral increased to 19.



In Sangju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, there was an emergency in connection with a Christian event in which more than 500 people gathered at the end of last month.



Nursing homes and religious facilities are the first and third routes of infection among confirmed people in their 60s and older, and are also the major infection routes in their 40s and 50s along with the rectum.



[Lee Sang-won / Director of Epidemiological Investigation and Analysis, Central Defense Countermeasure Headquarters: People over the age of 60 have many infections in nursing hospitals, nursing facilities, and through restaurants.

In the case of the age of 60 or older, 10% of confirmed cases develop into severe gastric patients…

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quarantine authorities are hoping to see a decrease in movement over the weekend.



Over the weekend, the amount of movement in the metropolitan area decreased by 12% compared to the previous week, and by 32% compared to before the 1.5-step distance-taking was implemented in the middle of last month.



The quarantine authorities expected the effect of reducing the amount of movement and distancing from next week, but repeatedly urged them to minimize movement such as holiday trips and meetings.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Lee Seung-yeol) 



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