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Today (13th), the number of new coronavirus cases is expected to be about 500 to 600, similar to yesterday.
As it becomes clear that the number of confirmed cases is decreasing, authorities will announce this Saturday whether to adjust the distance stage.
Reporter Ahn Sang-woo reports.
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new confirmed cases was 537, an increase of nearly 100 from the day before.
However, the ratio of confirmed cases to the number of tests dropped.
62,400 people had a diagnostic test, and the positive rate was 0.86%.
It is half of the previous day, and it is the lowest since the third epidemic began in earnest.
[Sae-Kyun Jeong/Prime Minister: Will it be decided this week, whether it will go to a certain level of stability, or whether it will fall into a swamp of re-proliferation due to distraction.]
The collective infection of religious groups remains a concern.
In the case of BTJ World Center in Sangju, Gyeongbuk, 576 people have been confirmed so far.
9 city and road infections spread through visitors to the center.
However, of the 2797 total visitors, only 33% responded to the test.
[Lee Sang-won/Director of Epidemiological Investigation Analysis, Central Defense Countermeasure Headquarters: Considering the positive rate of (visitors) so far, it is judged that the positive rate of those who have not yet been tested is not low.]
As the current distancing measures and special quarantine measures are ended this weekend, the government will decide whether to ease distancing on the 16th in consideration of the risk of re-proliferation of infection and announce it.
For indoor sports facilities in the metropolitan area, such as gyms, and businesses that are prohibited from collectively, such as karaoke rooms and academies, we are reviewing a step-by-step reopening policy rather than a collective reopening.