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new confirmed cases was 1,800, the highest as of Saturday. The government said it was difficult to control the epidemic in the short term because of delta mutations and holiday shifts.
This is the first news reporter Jung Da-eun.
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temporary screening test station at a highway rest area.
It is mainly used by people returning from vacation, and nine out of 3,000 people tested over the two days were confirmed.
[Kim Bu-gyeom/Prime Minister: Before returning to work from vacation, please 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 reached 1,817 on Saturday. standards were the most.
The average number of domestic patients per day last week was 1,780, an increase of 19% from the previous week.
In the metropolitan area, where the epidemic was gradually decreasing, the trend changed again, and in the non-metropolitan area, the spread increased mainly in 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 plans to recommend periodic preemptive testing for workers, stating that private academies and training centers are vulnerable to infection because many people study indoors for long periods of time.
He also urged people to refrain from traveling, saying that contact such as meetings and rallies during this holiday could lead to a large-scale epidemic.
(Video coverage: Seo Jin-ho, Video editing: Kim Jun-hee)