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Yesterday (9th), 470 new corona19 confirmed patients came out, maintaining 400 for two days in a row.
The government is concerned that the amount of movement will be slow in the spring season with the number of confirmed cases not decreasing.
This is Nam Joo-hyun.
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Of the 470 new confirmed cases, 452 were domestic outbreaks, excluding 18 foreign patients.
By region, 354 people were confirmed in the metropolitan area, including 132 in Seoul and 199 in Gyeonggi, and 98 were confirmed in the non-metropolitan area.
Group infection related to the Anseong Livestock Products Tribunal continues to spread.
In the last five days, 96 people were tested positive across the country, with 19 additional confirmed cases in Gyeonggi-do, including 6 in Anseong-si.
The average number of confirmed cases in Korea for the last week was 399, an increase of 34 from the previous week.
Health officials are concerned about the spread of infections due to increased traffic in spring, with the recent trend of patient declines stagnating for nearly two months.
[Sae-Kyun Jeong/Prime Minister: It is an important task to preemptively find hidden sources of infection that can trigger the 4th outbreak.] As
contact visits to severely ill patients in nursing hospitals are partially allowed, the government We decided to check whether the meeting room is installed and that the quarantine rules are followed, such as wearing protective equipment.
[Yoon Tae-ho/Head of the Central Accident Control Headquarters: There are cases where many people were infected and sacrificed due to group infection.
Managers and visitors repeatedly urge you to follow strict quarantine rules.] The Korea
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said
yesterday that 6,662 people received the Corona 19 vaccine a day, and the cumulative number of inoculations was 446,000.