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Today (7th), the number of newly confirmed coronaviruses is expected to be around 500. With the outbreak of group infection at the Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul, the quarantine authorities urgently announced that visitors were also tested. In Ulsan, the mutant virus is spreading rapidly, causing an emergency.
Reporter Park Chan-geun reports.
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number of new confirmed cases counted by 9 o'clock last night was 481, 74 fewer than the previous day.
It seems to be the effect of the decrease in the number of children's day holiday screenings. If this is the case, the final number of new confirmed cases to be announced today is expected to be around 500.
In the Noryangjin Fish Market, where 14 confirmed cases have been confirmed in Seoul since the first confirmation on the 30th of last month, guidelines from the quarantine authorities to inspect not only workers but also visitors came out.
The script said yesterday evening that people who visited the Noryangjin Fish Market from the 24th of last month to the 4th of last month were also subject to inspection by sending an emergency disaster message all over the metropolitan area.
In Ulsan, there is a series of infections caused by the British mutant virus.
It is known that the UK mutation is 50% stronger than the existing virus, and 76 people have been infected with the UK mutation in Ulsan, and 337 people have been in contact with them.
Among confirmed cases in Ulsan, the rate of mutation in the UK was 63.8%, four times higher than the national average.
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quarantine authorities said that the South African variant, which makes the vaccine less effective than the British variant, should also be noted, but said that there have been no cases of a person who received the vaccine twice infected with the mutant virus.