As Corona 19 is rapidly spreading around the metropolitan area, the number of new confirmed cases today (6th) recorded the mid-700s.
The Central Quarantine Countermeasures Headquarters announced that as of 00:00 today, there were 746 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 161,541.
The number of people increased by 35 compared to yesterday (711 people), continuing the 700 people for four days in a row.
If you look at the recent weekly number of patients, the effect of the decrease in the number of weekend and holiday tests continued until the beginning of the week, and the number of confirmed cases on Mondays and Tuesdays usually stayed in the 300-500 range, but this time, it is unusually high and continues to rise from the weekend.
In particular, if we look at the number of confirmed cases on Monday (announced as of 00:00 on Tuesday), this 746 people reached the peak of the 'third wave' (December 25 last year, 1,240 people) and started coming down on December 29 last year (1,44 people). people), the highest in 27 weeks.
The route of infection of today's new confirmed cases is 690 locally and 56 from overseas.
The number of new confirmed cases soared to 800 this month, showing an uneasy trend.
From the 30th of last month to today, the number of new confirmed cases in the past week was 794 → 761 → 825 → 794 → 743 → 711 → 746 per day, recording more than 700 people throughout the week.
During this period, 700 people are number 6 and 800 people are number 1.
This is the first time since the end of last year, right after the third epidemic, that there were more than 700 confirmed cases for a week in a row.