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332 new corona19 confirmed yesterday (21st).

After the Lunar New Year holidays, the number of confirmed cases has gradually decreased, but the number of confirmed cases continues to appear, centering on existing group infected areas such as large hospitals and business sites.

The government has decided to look at the situation by mid-week and consider raising the distance.



Reporter Park Soo-jin delivers.



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new corona19 confirmed cases was added yesterday, 332 people a day, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases amounted to 87,000.



Although the number of new confirmed cases has dropped to 300 within a week, it seems that the number of tests decreased over the weekend.



Excluding 19 foreign inflows, 313 cases were domestically infected.



By region, 236 people were concentrated in the metropolitan area, including 102 in Seoul and 116 in Gyeonggi, and 77 people in non-capital areas, including 12 in Busan and 19 in Gangwon, were infected.



Five more people died during the treatment of Corona 19, and 1,562 people have died so far.



Immediately after the Lunar New Year holiday, the number of confirmed cases has soared to the 600 level, but the number of confirmed cases is gradually decreasing, but additional cases are continuing to emerge from the existing group infected.



At the Soonchunhyang University Hospital in Seoul, 5 additional infections resulted in the cumulative number of confirmed cases increasing to 206, and 14 more were also confirmed at the Namyangju plastic plant in Gyeonggi-do, with 162 confirmed until yesterday.



As of yesterday, the number of cumulative confirmed cases related to acquaintance meetings in Yongsan-gu, Seoul increased to 79 as of yesterday.



[Jeon Hae-cheol/Minister of Public Administration and Security: The fact that on-site measures were insufficient before and after the outbreak of the confirmed case remains a regret in the aspect that it provided a primitive for this group infection.

(Relevant authorities and local governments) Please thoroughly check the quarantine management system once again.] The



quarantine authorities will review the situation until mid-week and decide on a distancing adjustment plan that will be applied from next week. There is a possibility to raise the current distance step, which is the second stage in the metropolitan area and the 1.5 stage in the non-metropolitan area.