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than 600 new corona19 confirmed cases occurred today, following yesterday (17th).
The recent increase in the number of confirmed cases is due to the outbreak of group infections in workplaces where foreign workers gather and work.
Reporter Ahn Sang-woo delivers.
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Out of the 621 new corona19 confirmed cases, 590 cases were infected in Korea.
By region, 432 confirmed cases were concentrated in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon.
In particular, 115 employees were confirmed in the plastic manufacturing plant in Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do.
A Cambodian nationality employee who visited his family's house in Seoul during the Lunar New Year holidays was confirmed on the 13th, and then a collective infection was confirmed in a total employee investigation.
Of the infected, 106 are foreign workers, and it is known that they have been living and eating together in a dormitory on the third floor of the factory.
On the 13th, more than 60 additional people were infected with a boiler manufacturing plant in Asan, Chungcheongnam-do, where the first confirmed cases were found, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeded 120.
The government believes that group infections occurred when employees did not properly wear masks or foreign workers lived in group dormitories even though these workplaces were in a three-dense environment.
[Kwon Deok-cheol/Minister of Health and Welfare: There are quarantine regulations in the workplace, but the biggest problem is that they are not followed well.
To prevent the same situation from recurring in a 3 dense environment or in a workplace where many foreign workers are employed...
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the future, the government decided to review claims for reimbursement rights in case of outbreaks due to quarantine regulations in the workplace.