'Prohibition of meetings with more than 5 people' expanded nationwide Expected to be around 1,000 today

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Starting today (4th), measures to ban more than 5 people from gathering privately will be expanded nationwide.

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And yesterday, when the number of tests decreased during the holiday season, the number of new confirmed cases fell to 600 after 23 days, but today it is expected to increase to 1,000.

This news is from Nam Joo-hyun.

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social distancing was extended for two weeks until the 17th, maintaining the 2.5th stage in the metropolitan area and the second stage in the non-metropolitan area, but the ban on private gatherings with more than 5 people has been extended nationwide.

The analysis of the outbreaks of patients last month is because there were more cases that were spread through routine small meetings than through group infections.

Private gatherings are limited to 4 people in all indoor and outdoor venues, and only 4 people can be booked in the restaurant.

Some exceptional cases, such as gatherings of family members, weddings, funerals, etc.

The number of confirmed patients who had been slowing down during the holiday season is also expected to approach 1,000.

On the first and second days of the holiday, there were only 800 and 600 confirmed cases, respectively, and the total number of confirmed cases disclosed by local governments yesterday, which was the last day of the holiday, has already exceeded 900.

Although the reinforced quarantine effect is gradually appearing, the number of new confirmed cases is expected to fluctuate for the time being and gradually decrease.

[Son Young-rae / Head of Strategic Planning Division, Central Accident Control Headquarters: The infectious reproductive index continues to decrease, and it is now down to around 1.

Due to the nature of this epidemic, which has a wide base of community infection, it is expected that the rate of decline will be very slow.]

However, the fact that the national fatigue is high due to the measures to strengthen distances that lasted nearly a month and the cold wave forecast this week is another of the corona 19 epidemic. Another variable.