<Anchor> With
Corona 19 showing signs of re-proliferation ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, the number of confirmed cases today (11th) is expected to be in the second half of 400.
Health authorities have repeatedly demanded that the New Year holidays be refrained from moving home and moving, as they regarded the holiday as a crossroads of the third epidemic.
Reporter Jang Se-man reports the first news.
<Reporter> As of
last night, 446 new confirmed cases per day in the country were tentatively counted.
There were 34 more people than the same time the day before, and 4 out of 5 confirmed cases came from the metropolitan area.
In Hwacheon-gun, Gangwon-do, eight people were confirmed in five days, with two more.
Health officials believe that the outbreak began with a resident of Seoul who visited a relative's home before Lunar New Year's Day at the end of last month.
The authorities repeatedly urged them to refrain from moving home and moving, saying that the third epidemic could revive during the Lunar New Year holiday.
Weekend traffic is increasing, and the infectious reproduction index in the metropolitan area has risen from 0.77 four weeks ago to 1.04 recently, which is also a factor of concern.
Anything above 1 indicates the spread of the infection.
[Yoon Tae-ho / Head of the Central Accident Control Headquarters: We ask you to refrain from visiting friends and traveling as much as possible.
It would be even more appreciated if the elderly could say that it's okay if they don't come first, and their hearts are enough.] When the number of
mutant virus infections increased to 80, the government decided to strengthen quarantine.
Beginning on the 24th, all foreign visitors, including Koreans, must submit PCR test results upon entry and undergo two more tests before quarantine release.