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Last weekend, the number of new corona cases broke another record as of Saturday. We broke the record for the most by day of the week throughout the past week, and today (16th) is also expected to be around 1,500, the most as of Sunday.
By Park Jae-hyung, staff reporter.
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temporary screening test station at a highway rest area.
It is mainly used by people returning from vacation. In two days, 3,000 people were tested and 9 people were confirmed.
[Kim Bu-gyeom/Prime Minister: Before returning to work from vacation, do not hesitate to visit a nearby inspection station.] As
group infections continued at the construction site in Yongin, Gyeonggi, and the workplace in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, the number of new confirmed cases yesterday was the highest as of Saturday, 1 The number reached 1,817 and is expected to reach 1,500 today.
The average number of domestic patients per day last week was 1,780, an increase of 19% from the previous week.
The metropolitan area, which had been gradually decreasing, turned to an increasing trend again, and the non-metropolitan area expanded its spread centered on Daejeon, Chungcheong, Busan, Gyeongnam, and Jeju.
[Sonyoungrae / Central accidents probation office social strategy Lieutenant: disseminative strong Delta mutations're a virus with the holiday season moves engages fashionable increased on a large scale, a situation that is difficult to control the epidemic in a short period of time]
In addition, one person close to several people The infection reproduction index, which indicates whether or not it infects people, was 1.1, up from 0.99 the previous week.
The government urged people to refrain from contact and movement, such as meetings and assemblies, even today, the last day of the holiday.