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Yesterday (1st) on New Year's Day, there were 800 confirmed corona19.

However, it seems that the situation has improved a little as it came down from the 1,000 mark and recorded 800 people in five days.

However, as it is a holiday, it is difficult to say that the spread of the test has declined yet as the number of tests has decreased.

In particular, a mutant virus from South Africa was also confirmed for the first time following the UK.



This is reporter Park Chan-beom.



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government put significance in the fact that the growth rate of patients in the metropolitan area has slowed somewhat.



The average number of confirmed cases per day in the metropolitan area for the last week was 652, a little less than 707 a week ago.



[Kwon Deok-cheol/Minister of Health and Welfare: The rate of patient growth is slowing, and the infectious reproductive index is approaching 1.] The



occurrence of confirmed cases is still concentrated in the metropolitan area.



In the eastern detention center in Seoul, 13 additional prisoners were confirmed, and the cumulative number increased to 958.



In addition, additional infections in vulnerable facilities such as nursing homes continued.



The number of confirmed cases infected with the corona mutant virus increased by five.



Three out of four additional confirmed UK mutant virus infections are the family of a man in his 80s who was diagnosed as'confirmed after death' on the 26th of last month.



One of them was confirmed to have visited a beauty salon and mart near their residence in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, after entering Korea before other family members in November of last year and before being confirmed.



Broadcasting authorities said, however, that none of this person's contacts have been confirmed yet.



People who arrived from South Africa via the United Arab Emirates on the 26th of last month were also found to be infected with the South African mutant virus.



In order to prevent the spread of the foreign mutant virus to the local community, the government has made it mandatory for foreigners to submit a'voice confirmation'.



[Lim Sook-young / Head of the Headquarters for Prevention and Prevention: We will make it mandatory by submitting a PCR (gene amplification test) negative confirmation issued within 72 hours from the departure date.]



From the 8th to the airport and the 15th to the port.



(Video coverage: Jung Seong-hwa·Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Jang Hyun-ki, CG: Seo Seung-hyun)