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Today (12th), it is expected that there will be around 500 new coronavirus confirmed cases in Korea.
The quarantine authorities also said that for the time being, it will maintain the level of 600 to 700 people a day.
This news is from Ahn Sang-woo.
<Reporter> The number of
new confirmed cases is 451, and this is the first time since December 1 last year that the number of confirmed cases has remained in the 400 units.
The Infectious Reproduction Index, which indicates the number of people who can be infected by an additional confirmed case, has also dropped to 0.88.
[Jung Eun-kyung/Director of the Korea Disease Control Center: I think it is an encouraging situation.
If the current trend continues, it is estimated that 600 to 700 people will occur in one week.]
However, the risk factors still remain.
First of all, hidden sources of infection are spread across the community, with 26.2% of whom do not know the route of infection.
Religious facilities are increasingly not complying with quarantine regulations or not cooperating with epidemiological investigations.
In fact, 29 confirmed cases occurred in one day at the International Prayer Center in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, which held a face-to-face meeting despite the forced dissolution, and 70% of BTJ Visitors to the BTJ Center for the spread of the virus to 21 religious facilities in 8 provinces were still diagnosed. It has not been tested.
[Bae Woon-Seok/Seoul City Cultural Policy Division Director: (Some of the visitors) are refusing the inspection on the grounds that they did not visit the Nation Center.
There are also those who cannot be contacted due to undeliverable calls or missed numbers
.