Today, around 700 people are expected... Mother's Day urges to refrain from meetings

<Anchor>

Today (8th), the number of new corona 19 confirmed cases is expected to reach 700. The quarantine authorities urged the senior citizens to make reservations for vaccines instead of reducing unnecessary meetings as much as possible today, Mother's Day.

Reporter Park Soo-jin reports.

<Reporter> This

is a public bath in Ulju-gun, Ulsan.

After the first confirmation of female passengers here on the 5th, 17 people were confirmed one after another until yesterday.

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 public bath has been infected by another source of infection and has spread backwards.]

In Gangneung, where the group infection of foreign workers occurred on the 1st, 19 additional foreigners were confirmed yesterday, and foreigners were confirmed. 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 for 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 this weekend on Mother's Day, but to make reservations so that the elderly can get the vaccine on time.