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would not come, but it seems that the 4th coronavirus pandemic is approaching.

The government also said the situation is in jeopardy.

The number of new coronavirus confirmed cases, which recorded 700 yesterday (on the 8th), is expected to be in the mid-to-late 600 range today.

The government today is announcing a distancing adjustment that will take effect next week.



Reporter Kwak Sang-eun reports.



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This is an indoor sports facility in Seocho-gu, Seoul, where group infection has been confirmed.



After the first confirmed person came out on the 26th of last month, the number of infections gradually increased, and then 27 people were confirmed at once.



The cumulative number of confirmed patients, including users, employees, and families, has increased to 55.



[Park Yoo-mi/Seoul City Citizen Health Bureau Director: High intimacy between users, it is estimated to be an infection through contact between residents.]



Seven more confirmed

cases

related to Sujeong Church nationwide increased to 208 in 13 cities and provinces.



The government has warned that if the spread cannot be mitigated immediately, the fourth outbreak will become a reality.



Some analyzes say that if the 4th epidemic begins, it will exceed the scale of the 3rd epidemic, where 1,240 confirmed cases per day came out.



This is because the number of confirmed cases in the stable period just before the third epidemic was around 100, but recently, it has maintained around 500, much more than that.



[Kwon Jun-wook/President of the National Institute of Health: Basically, the outbreak is large, the reproductive index is high, and there is a concern about the spread of the mutant virus, which has a high transmission power and a high severity of severity.]



It seems that yesterday, there were 600 new confirmed cases in the mid- to late-stage

range.

Today is announcing the social distancing adjustments that will take effect next week.



It is known that new contents will be included to further strengthen quarantine for multi-use facilities where group infections are frequent, such as entertainment facilities and religious facilities.