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Today (22nd), the number of new confirmed cases is expected to be in the early and mid-300 units.
Although the number of confirmed cases is declining, another outbreak has emerged from underground saunas and educational facilities.
This is reporter Kim Hyung-rae.
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is an underground sauna located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
After one user was confirmed on the 11th, 17 additional users, including other users and employees, were confirmed.
Among the confirmed cases, employees who used the same sleeping room as long-term guests who stayed in the internal sleeping room for several days were included.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government notified those who visited between the 6th and 19th to undergo examination.
At education-related facilities in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 16 people have been confirmed since the 17th.
The classroom side raised the desk distance by more than 1 meter and installed some barriers, but the infection could not be avoided.
It is estimated that students have been exposed to the virus while taking classes in the same place for several hours.
[Park Yoomi/Seoul City Citizen Health Bureau Director: 1 teacher and 4 students taught for 6 hours, and it was confirmed that some students studied 1 on 1 with the teacher.] If the
quarantine authorities stay close and stay in the same space for a long time, He emphasized that the quarantine regulations should be more thoroughly followed, such as wearing a mask at all times.
In addition, regarding foreign media reports that the South African mutant virus can neutralize the neutralizing antibody of a cure and cause reinfection after vaccination, he explained that it will start research on the effectiveness of treatments and vaccines using the South African mutant virus obtained in Korea within this week.