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After recording three digits over the last two days, the number of additional confirmed cases per day surpassed 1,000 again, the second highest ever at 1,092.

Recently, more than 100,000 tests are being performed daily, and the number of patients is increasing again as several cases have been confirmed at medical institutions and religious facilities.



This is reporter So Hwan-wook.



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Among 1,092 new confirmed cases, 1,060 were domestic cases, minus 32 foreign inflows.



With confirmed cases in all 17 cities and provinces nationwide, they accounted for about two-thirds in the metropolitan area.



In particular, a new group infection was confirmed at medical institutions and churches, but at a hospital in Nowon-gu, Seoul, 23 more people, including patients and hospital workers, were infected after the first confirmed case came out on the 20th.



In a church in Geumcheon-gu, after the first patient outbreak on the 17th, an additional 20 people were confirmed, and in a church in Gumi, Gyeongbuk, 26 people were newly tested yesterday (22nd).



As group infections continued in religious facilities ahead of Christmas, the quarantine authorities repeatedly requested that all regular worship services, Mass, and court meetings be held non-face-to-face, and not to have meetings and meals after religious events.



[Son Young-rae / Head of Strategic Planning Division, Central Accident Probation Headquarters: It is a principle that non-face-to-face worship is required, and the manpower required in the process of carrying out the principle is limited to 20 people.]



In nursing hospitals and nursing facilities where group infections have already been confirmed, the number of confirmed patients is increasing, and there are cases of dying while waiting for bed assignments.



In particular, at Bucheon Hyoplus Nursing Hospital, where 22 people died in 10 days, it was confirmed that 20 people died while waiting in bed.



The quarantine authorities said that it is promoting designation of a nursing hospital dedicated to infectious diseases for inpatient treatment of elderly patients with bedridden dementia confirmed in nursing hospitals or waiting at home.



(Video editing: Park Jin-hoon)



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