<Anchor> For the
first time since the first corona patient was reported in Korea at the beginning of last year, the daily number of confirmed cases exceeded 2,000. Today (12th), it is expected that there will be around 2,000 people. In particular, the number of confirmed cases has increased in areas visited by many people during the holiday season.
Reporter Nam Joo-hyun reports.
<Reporter> At the
screening clinics in the metropolitan area, the steps to receive diagnostic tests continued all day.
[Soyoon Cho / Yangcheon-gu, Seoul: There are many asymptomatic people these days, so I am scared to go outside, so I also tested for health reasons.] The
number of confirmed patients, which was in the range of 600-700 at the end of June, exceeded 1,000 at the beginning of last month.
Since then, even under the highest level of social distancing, it has been around 1,000 for the 35th day, and then surpassed 2,000 for the first time and soared to 2,200.
It is an analysis that the current distancing system is not able to prevent the 4th pandemic centered on the delta mutation.
[Choejaeuk / KU Medical Preventive Medicine Professor: Because (current) distancing the program itself is not something designed specifically for the spread of the delta mutant virus, will the system at best is coming not effect the operation]
fell even more defenses tension during the third epidemic I lost.
During the third wave, the business hours of restaurants and cafes were limited to 9 pm, and entertainment facilities, singing practice rooms and indoor sports facilities were closed.
Currently, what has been strengthened is the ban on more than three people after 6 pm in the metropolitan area.
The government also acknowledged that "it is difficult to block the spread of the virus with the current quarantine measures," and said, "We are considering additional measures."
First, we stopped all contact visits with nursing hospitals and facilities and appealed to the public to stay at home over the Liberation Day holiday, but criticism that quarantine measures are being repeated one step late after the epidemic has become inevitable.