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Due to the decrease in the number of tests over the weekend, it is expected that the number of new corona19 confirmed patients will be around 500 today (27th). The average number of confirmed cases per day for a week has been increasing at the 5th week, showing that routine infections continue to spread.



Reporter Kim Deok-hyun reports.



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is an elderly care facility in Seongdong-gu, Seoul.



On the 24th, after one worker who received the vaccine was confirmed, the number of confirmed patients, including the elderly and workers, increased to six.



The elderly and workers here received the Pfizer vaccine on the 19th and 20th, and they appear to be infected before antibodies formed.



The number of confirmed cases, which soared close to 800, came down to 500 in six days, but the risk of the 4th epidemic is increasing.



The average number of domestic patients per day for the last week was 659, an increase of 38 from the previous week.



It is on the rise for 5 consecutive weeks, but the number of confirmed cases has increased in all regions of the country except Honam.



The government plans to intensively manage infection-vulnerable facilities in which outbreaks are occurring through joint inspections.



The case of a nursing assistant in her 40s who received the AstraZeneca vaccine and reported symptoms of limb paralysis did not conclude the relevance of vaccination.



[Park Young-jun/Head of Adverse Event Investigation Support Team, Vaccination Promotion Team: It is the procedure and order to evaluate the causality of vaccination and diagnosis after clarifying the diagnosis name a little more... .]



Including the announcement yesterday, there have been 99 cases of death and serious adverse reactions deliberated by the government so far, and only two serious suspected cases have been recognized for causality with the vaccine.