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Additional corona confirmed cases continued for 500 people for the second day. Authorities carefully predicted that if this trend continues, the number of confirmed cases per day could fall below 500 within a week or two. He added that tomorrow (the 8th), Mother's Day, should refrain from unnecessary meetings, and instead make reservations for vaccines for the elderly.



This is Park Soo-jin.



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is a public bath in Ulju-gun, Ulsan.



Children's Day Yesterday, after the first confirmation of female passengers here, 17 people, including three new passengers, were confirmed.



It is a situation in which the number of confirmed cases may increase as a specific route of infection has not yet been found.



[Tae-ik Yeo/Ulsan City Infectious Disease Control Manager: We need to investigate whether someone who has been to the bathhouse has been infected by another source of infection and has spread upside down.]



In Gangneung, where the group infection of foreign workers occurred on the 1st, 19 people were added today to confirm foreigners. The number of sleep increased to 71.



Group infection continues in non-metropolitan areas such as Ulsan, Gyeongnam, and Gwangju, but the number of confirmed cases in Korea including the metropolitan area is decreasing.



As of this month, the average number of confirmed cases per day fell to 500, and then steadily decreased, and the infection reproductive index, which means how many people per confirmed person infects, has also fallen to less than 1.



[Yoon Tae-ho/Head of quarantine prevention officer Jungsu-bon: If this trend continues without special variables, would it not be possible for less than 500 people within the next 1-2 weeks...? .] As



vaccination of the elderly has accelerated, plans to resume face-to-face visits at nursing hospitals and nursing facilities have also come out.



Face-to-face visits are allowed from two weeks after the second vaccination is completed, either the visitor or the inpatient.



The quarantine authorities urged them to refrain from unnecessary family gatherings for Mother's Day tomorrow, but to make reservations so that the elderly can get the vaccine on time.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Hwang Ji-young, CG: Lee Jong-jung)