<Anchor> The
number of new corona 19 confirmed cases fell to 674 again in five days.
The government analyzed that it has passed the peak of the third pandemic, but said that in order to reduce the distancing stage, the number of confirmed cases in Korea should fall by 400 to 500.
This is Jang Se-man.
<Reporter> In the
last week, the number of new confirmed cases in Korea averaged 765 per day, falling below the 3rd stage criterion, which is 800 to 1,000 or more.
211 people decreased from the previous week.
[Yoon Tae-ho/Head of the Central Accident Control Headquarters: The current epidemic situation is carefully judged as passing the peak and entering a declining phase.
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It is early to be relieved.
The death toll was 35, the second largest so far, and the number of deaths is increasing due to the time gap between the confirmed cases and the progression to severe.
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...
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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.