<Anchor> The
number of new corona cases has exceeded 2,000. As of 9 p.m. yesterday (10th), the number of confirmed cases has already been counted at 2,021. The number of confirmed cases is rapidly increasing in both metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, but the supply of vaccines continues to be disrupted, making it difficult for the number of confirmed cases to decrease in a short period of time.
Reporter Ki-tae Kim reports.
<Reporter> As of
9pm last night, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Korea is 2,021.
On January 20 last year, the number of new confirmed cases exceeded 2,000 for the first time in 568 days since the first confirmed case in Korea.
Considering that the final count is made until midnight, the number of new confirmed cases to be announced this morning is expected to reach 2,100 to 2,200.
It is highly likely that the warning from the quarantine authorities that there may be 2,300 confirmed cases in the middle of this month will become a reality.
Although the 4th level in the metropolitan area and 3rd level or higher in the non-metropolitan area have been extended, the weekly daily average number of confirmed cases has continued to increase since July.
As the number of family and acquaintance gatherings increases during the holiday season, the rate of infection by contact with a confirmed person or overlapping with a confirmed person's movement has also exceeded 4% for the first time.
[Park Hyang/Chief Quarantine Headquarters: The number of close contacts, and the number of confirmed cases through vacations, family or acquaintances, or through contact is increasing.] In
particular, the spread of non-metropolitan areas is not slowing.
The non-metropolitan area accounted for 44.6% of the total number of confirmed cases.
The infection reproduction index, which shows how many people a confirmed person infects, was also reduced from the previous week to 0.99 in the national standard, while in non-metropolitan areas, it is spreading, exceeding 1.