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was useless even though the number of inspections decreased because it was a weekend.

On Saturday, the record of 1,97 confirmed cases a day was changed again, recording the 1,000 new confirmed cases for the fifth day.

Yesterday (20th), which was Sunday, doesn't seem to make a big difference.

In this case, it is expected that the average of 1,000 people per day for the past week will be exceeded, and even the upper limit will be exceeded in the 3rd stage of distance.



Reporter Han Ji-yeon reports.



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Yesterday, the number of tests per day was 36,000, which was nearly 20,000 fewer than the 56,000 the previous day.



However, the record number of 1,97 people was newly confirmed, and the record so far changed 1,78 people in four days.



The number of confirmed cases related to nursing hospitals and nursing homes in Guro-gu, Seoul increased to 54, and the number of confirmed cases in Seongseok Church in Gangseo-gu also increased to 203. Sporadic group infections are continuing.



It has been two weeks since the distance from the Seoul metropolitan area 2.5 stage and the non-metropolitan area 2 stage has been raised, but the effect is not showing.



The average number of domestic cases per day in the past week was 949, which is 287.3 more than the previous week, meeting the 3rd step upgrade requirement.



The quarantine authorities said that the mechanical argument that further distancing the number of confirmed cases has increased is not convincing, and urged them to persevere and participate so that they can break the spread without raising it to the third stage.



[Park Neung-hoo/Minister of Health and Welfare: It includes stopping not only the service industry but also the manufacturing industry that produces production.

If it has a great ripple effect on our economy and can be avoided, it must be avoided...

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In addition, even if it goes through the third stage, it does not consider'lockdown', such as restrictions on movement between regions, and said that it will ensure that daily life itself, such as purchasing daily necessities, can be maintained.