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Nearly 2,000 additional confirmed cases have been reported. It is the second highest number in history, and the number of confirmed cases today (12th) is already close to 1,700 as of 6 pm, so the number of confirmed cases to be announced tomorrow is expected to be around 2,000. Authorities have repeatedly urged people to stay at home as much as possible over the Liberation Day holiday.
This is the first news reporter Jang Se-man.
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the 2nd, at a pub in Seomyeon, Busan, where the first confirmed case was reported, 15 additional infections were found.
The cumulative number of confirmed cases has risen to 110, including 63 visitors and 4 workers.
Two additional patients were also added to the nursing hospital in Gijang-gun, Busan, where a breakthrough infection confirmed after the completion of the vaccination occurred, and these were also those who completed the vaccination.
[Lee So-ra / Director of Busan City Citizens' Prevention Promotion Team: At Gijang-gun Nursing Hospital, the number of confirmed cases so far is 51 hospitalized patients, 5 employees, and 2 family contacts.]
21 related confirmed cases were also found at the Jeju Day Care Center for the Elderly.
Most of them were presumed to be breakthrough infections caused by delta mutations.
Due to the spread of the delta mutation, the number of non-regional confirmed cases reached 746, the highest since the fourth epidemic in one day.
In the metropolitan area, new infections have been linked to workplaces, day care centers, and boarding schools.
At a boarding school in Yongin, one academy student was confirmed on the 10th, followed by a total of 29 confirmed cases.
Since the route of infection of the first confirmed patient has not been confirmed, there is concern about the spread through hidden infected persons.
Ahead of the Liberation Day holiday and the start of school at the end of this month, quarantine is facing a difficult time again.
[Bae Baek-taek / Head of the Corona 19 Vaccination Promotion Team: Please stay home and pause for a while during this holiday. If you visit other areas during vacation, be sure to get tested... .] In
order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 through regional movement during the holiday season, temporary screening and inspection stations will be operated at 4 rest stops on the upper highways in the metropolitan area from tomorrow to the end of this month.
Prime Minister Kim Bu-gyeom will announce a public address tomorrow morning.
Along with measures to support the self-employed and small business owners, it seems to contain a message asking the public to cooperate with the quarantine.
(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: So Ji-hye)
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