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new corona19 confirmed yesterday (9th) was also in the late 600s.

Today, when a reporter went out to a public health center in Seoul, the line waiting for the test was quite long.

Blocking the 4th epidemic in the early stages has become an urgent need.



This is Park Soo-jin.



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This morning, the temporary screening and inspection office in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul.



Even in the morning of the holidays, a long line was formed in front of the public health center as people trying to undergo a corona diagnosis were crowded.



In recent years, the government has expanded preemptive inspections without stopping the spread, and as companies and schools that regularly request inspection results have increased, demand for inspections has increased.



[Jang Young-ran/Seoul Gangseo-gu: I came because it saves time compared to other public health centers, but today I waited for more than two hours.]



Group infections are continuing by dozens of people all over the country.



In Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, 17 people were confirmed as a result of a group infection that spread to churches through family gatherings, and seven out of 21 employees who participated in in-house safety training in a Busan company have been infected so far.



[Lee Sora/Busan City Citizens' Prevention Promotion Director: I doubt that some of them were inadequate to wear masks.

It seems that the space in the place where the safety training was conducted was not very large.]



The average number of confirmed cases per day for the past week is 579, which is at the level of 2.5 steps to distance, and the Infectious Reproduction Index, which indicates how many people can infect one person, has risen from 1.07 last week to 1.12 this week, raising concerns about the 4th pandemic.



[Jeon Hae-cheol/Minister of Public Administration and Security: It is very similar to the third epidemic in early December.

(Central ministries and local governments) will form a joint quarantine inspection team and intensively check the status of compliance with quarantine regulations for vulnerable areas.]



Yesterday, 33,000 people a day received the first dose of the Corona 19 vaccine, and so far, 1,184,060 people have 1 You have finished the primary vaccination.



The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) will announce the resumption of vaccinations for those under the age of 60 who have been withheld due to controversy over the link between AstraZeneca vaccination and blood clot formation.



(Video coverage: Senior Citizen, Video editing: Lee So-young, CG: Kang Yu-ra)