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Yesterday (7th), the number of new confirmed cases fell to 674, which fell to 600 in five days.
The government analyzed that the peak of the third pandemic was past, and said that in order to lower the distance distancing stage, the number of confirmed cases should be sufficiently dropped to the 400-500 level per day.
This is Jang Se-man.
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number of new confirmed cases in Korea in the last week was 765 on average per day, falling below the 3rd stage criterion, which is 800~1,000 or more.
211 people decreased from the previous week.
[Yoon Tae-ho/Head of Central Accident Control Headquarters: We are carefully judging that the current epidemic has passed its peak and is entering a declining phase.]
It is too early to
be
relieved.
The number of deaths yesterday was 35, the second largest so far, but among the confirmed cases, there is a time gap between them and the number of deaths is increasing.
Still, it is fortunate that the amount of movement of citizens has decreased.
In the case of the metropolitan area, mobile phone traffic decreased by 2.4% from a week ago, dropping to a level similar to that of a week after the 2.5 step distance was implemented.
The government said that in order to ease the quarantine regulations, the number of confirmed cases per day should fall below the 2nd step standard.
[Son Young-rae / Head of Strategic Planning Division, Central Accident Control Headquarters: I think it is important to sufficiently drop the decline.
We are judging that it is necessary to drop below 400~500...
.]
Ahead of vaccination at the end of next month, the Corona 19 Vaccination Response Promotion Team, headed by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was launched today.
Commissioner Chung said that the goal is to form domestic collective immunity with 60 to 70% of the people immunized by November.
(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Park Ji-in)
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