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Last Sunday, which was announced yesterday (21st), the number of new corona19 confirmed 926 people.
I hope that it will decrease like this, at least a little bit, but the quarantine authorities are expecting a range of 1,000 to 1,200 per day for the time being.
Today, special quarantine measures for the year-end and New Year holidays are announced at the central government level.
This is Jang Se-man.
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Ahead of Christmas and the New Year holidays, special quarantine measures will be announced today.
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 number of
new corona19 confirmed patients fell below 1,000 in six days, but last week
The positive rate, which remained around 2%, rose to the 3% level.
If 100 people are tested, 3 people have been confirmed.
The quarantine authorities diagnosed it as a serious situation, although it has been preventing further surges to some extent due to the distancing upgrade that has been implemented since the 8th.
[Eun-kyung Jeong/Director of the Korea Disease Control Center: 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 people will occur next week.] The
government orders vulnerable facilities such as nursing homes through an administrative order
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The preemptive inspection period for the metropolitan area was shortened from 2 weeks to 1 week in the metropolitan area, and from 4 weeks to 2 weeks in the non-metropolitan area, and private meetings were prohibited after work.