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There were 1219 new confirmed cases of Corona 19 yesterday (1st), and the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Korea exceeded 200,000. It took about a year and two months to reach 100,000 for the first time, and then in just four months after that, it became 200,000. Although the recent spread of the virus has slowed down a bit, quarantine authorities do not expect the number of patients to decrease rapidly.



Reporter Park Soo-jin reports.



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is a nursing hospital in Gangseo-gu, Seoul. After one patient in the hospital was confirmed on the 30th of last month, 10 additional patients and workers have been infected so far.



Seven of the confirmed patients were vaccinated, and six of them were breakthrough infections that occurred more than two weeks after the completion of the vaccination.



Delta mutation infection is under investigation.



[Bakyumi / Seoul Citizens Health Commissioner: were several people use the room with the patient, some are investigating reports that the masks worn by the lack or propagate into contact during dialysis and rehabilitation]



non-metropolitan areas and spread Sega metropolitan somewhat slowed last two weeks also slightly decreased.



However, the quarantine authorities judge that it is too early to be relieved due to the nature of the fourth epidemic, which is led by the highly contagious delta mutation and the holiday season, which spreads quickly.



In fact, the infection reproduction index, which indicates how many people a confirmed person infects, exceeds 1, and the number of patients with severe cases has continued to increase in the past 4 weeks.



[Jeongeungyeong / Disease Management Commissioner: a few situations in which reports that are difficult to very quickly diagnosed party number decreased because their situation had months continued occurrence]



not yet match the vaccine 10 confirmed rate of 100,000 per 3.7 people last week. It is also worrying that the number has increased the most after the 20s.



While the 4th step in the metropolitan area and the 3rd step in the non-metropolitan area are ending this Sunday, the quarantine authorities plan to decide whether to extend the phase or strengthen the quarantine measures while monitoring the progress this week.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Won-hee Won, CG: Kim Ye-in·Jeong Hyeon-jeong·Lee Ah-reum, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)    



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