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Last week, the number of additional confirmed patients surpassed 1,000 for five days in a row, and yesterday (20th) came down to three digits.

However, the number of severely ill patients continues to increase, and the number of deaths per day was the highest ever, 24.

Health officials have decided to announce special quarantine measures tomorrow ahead of the holidays and the year-end and New Year holidays, saying that if this trend continues, as many as 1,200 confirmed cases per day may come out next week.



This is Jang Se-man.



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new corona19 confirmed patients fell below 1,000 in six days, but the positive rate, which remained around 2% last week, rose to 3% yesterday after 2.98% yesterday.



If 100 people are examined, 3 people will be confirmed.



The quarantine authorities diagnosed that the situation is still serious, although the increase in distancing has been implemented to some extent.



[Jung Eun-kyung/Director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: The reproductive index of infection is about 1.28, and if the number of confirmed cases is predicted, it is expected that between 1,000 and 1,200 will occur next week.] The



number of severely ill patients and deaths is also increasing.



Of the deaths in the past week, 95% were in their 60s or older, most of them with underlying diseases, and 40 of them were found to be infected in infection-prone facilities such as nursing homes.



Through an administrative order, the government shortened the preemptive inspection period for workers in these facilities from 2 weeks to 1 week in the metropolitan area and from 4 weeks to 2 weeks in the non-metropolitan area, and banned private meetings after work.



Special quarantine measures will be announced tomorrow ahead of Christmas and the New Year holidays.



It is interpreted with the intention of blocking the infection chain through meetings and events to prevent only the three-stage upgrade, which has large social and economic losses.



[Sae-gyun Jeong/Prime Minister: Adjusting the distance step must be carefully prepared, but it should be the last card.

First of all, special quarantine measures are required for nursing hospitals, etc., which have been recently identified as vulnerable facilities.] The



government plans to give a preparation period of 2 to 3 days before implementation to prevent social confusion even if it goes to step 3 of distancing.



(Video coverage: Jung Seong-hwa·Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Park Player)  



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