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However, it is a thin ice sheet that is easy to break until daily recovery. First, there is still a strong spread. Yesterday (6th), the number of confirmed cases approached 1,600, the highest as of Monday, and today it is expected to be around 2,000. In particular, it is spreading again in the metropolitan area, and it has become important to prevent this spread from spreading again during the Chuseok holiday.



Next is reporter Jang Se-man.



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An experience-type kids cafe in Seoul tried to reduce the density by taking customers by reservation to prevent corona infection, but it was not enough.



28 people have been infected since the first confirmed case on the 26th of last month.



[Song Eun-cheol/Seoul Metropolitan City Infectious Diseases Control Division: (Children) share hands-on activities such as cooking and it is difficult to keep distance (it seems to have spread.)]



Contrary to a slight decline over the past week, the number of confirmed cases nationwide yesterday, Monday, was 1,000. With 597 cases, the highest number as of Monday.



In the case of new cluster infections, the number of patients was highest in the order of workplaces, multi-use facilities, and educational facilities.



In particular, re-proliferation in the metropolitan area is a problem.



The average number of confirmed cases in the metropolitan area last week was 1,156, an increase of 44 compared to the previous week, and the average number of confirmed cases per 100,000 people was 4.5, which is more than twice the number of 1 or 2 in non-metropolitan areas.



If the metropolitan area re-spreads, there is concern that the vicious cycle of spreading the infection to non-metropolitan areas again in conjunction with the Chuseok holiday, when the movement volume is soaring, will be repeated like the summer vacation season.



[Park Hyang / Head of the Central Accident Resolving Headquarters Quarantine Headquarters: When the epidemic in the metropolitan area decreases, the possibility of transmission to non-metropolitan areas due to travel during the holidays will also decrease.]



Another risk factor is the expansion of elementary, middle and high schools this week and the opening of classes by universities one after another.



In the midst of this, the spread of the mutated virus has become more severe.



In particular, delta mutations, which have strong propagation power, accounted for 97% of all analyses, an increase of 2.7 percentage points in one week.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: So Ji-hye, VJ: Oh Se-gwan) 



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