The number of new corona19 confirmed by 9 o'clock last night (5th) was counted as 659.
There are 11 more people than the number counted at the same time the day before.
By region, more than 80% of the confirmed cases are in the metropolitan area, including 299 in Seoul and 208 in Gyeonggi.
If you include additional confirmed cases by midnight, the number of confirmed cases is expected to be around 700 as of 00:00 today (6th).
As infections continue to increase in the metropolitan area, the concerns of local governments and quarantine authorities are deepening.
Currently, in the metropolitan area, the application of the new distancing system with relaxed quarantine rules has been postponed until tomorrow.
The metropolitan area distance system that will be applied from the day after tomorrow will be announced through a briefing after the main headquarters meeting tomorrow morning.
In the new social distancing reform plan, the standard for stage 3 is more than 1,000 cases in Korea and more than 500 in the metropolitan area, but the average daily number of confirmed cases in the metropolitan area has risen to 531.1.
When step 3 is applied in the metropolitan area, gatherings of no more than 4 people will be allowed, and restaurants and pubs will only be open until 10pm.