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Nearly 500 new corona19 confirmed cases came out again.
Group infections have already occurred in the Jinju sauna in Gyeongnam.
The current distance has already been extended by two more weeks.
Reporter Kim A-young reports.
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were 40 more confirmed cases of a sauna in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, yesterday (12th) today.
On the 9th, four days after the first confirmed case, the number of patients increased to 132.
[Shin Jong-woo / Gyeongsangnam-do Health and Welfare Bureau: 132 positive patients, including the first confirmed cases.
1,87
people are negative and 381 are in the process of testing.]
This sauna in a residential
area
seems to have spread rapidly among many regular customers who paid several months' fees in advance.
Jinju City has issued a total ban on gathering at 98 bathing facilities in the area for two weeks starting today.
In a nursing home in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, 9 users and 2 employees were confirmed.
It is known that users are 65 years of age or older and have not yet received the vaccine, and the quarantine authorities are checking whether or not they have been vaccinated.
[Park Young-jun/Head of Adverse Reactions Investigation Support Team, Vaccination Response Promotion Team: (for group immunity), the basic part is that the inoculation rate must be sufficiently secured.
Usually we can expect some protective effect after 2 weeks of vaccination...
.]
There is a situation where tensions cannot be slowed down, with the number of new confirmed cases approaching 500 for two days in a row, and group infection continues through daily living spaces such as saunas, academies, and sports facilities.
(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, KNN and Ahn Myung-hwan, Video editing: Park Ji-in)