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Last weekend, the number of corona confirmed cases exceeded 3,000. Today (22nd) is also expected to exceed 3,000. The spread of the virus is not so severe that even the 'weekend effect' of decreasing the number of confirmed cases disappears due to the decrease in the number of tests.
Reporter Won Jong-jin reports.
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today, kindergarten and elementary, middle and high school students will be fully enrolled.
The Ministry of Education expects that 97% of all schools in the metropolitan area will go to school.
[Baek Joo-ha / Middle school student: I think I can meet my friends and have a more fun class. Because of the thorough quarantine at school.]
However, the spread of Corona 19 continued even on weekends with a small number of tests, so there is a lot of anxiety.
By 9 o'clock on Sunday, there were 2,468 confirmed cases in 16 cities and provinces except Busan, which is more than 600 more than the same time standard on the 14th, a week ago.
If you add up the number of confirmed cases until 00:00 today, it is expected to exceed 3,000.
The number of student confirmed cases also recorded an all-time high of 349 per day at the beginning of this month, followed by an average of 330 per day last week.
[Ji Ji-sun/Parents: I think that if all grades go to school, the risk will increase.]
In the case of Seoul, the education authorities have allowed remote classes to be conducted in schools with more than 1,000 students or 30 or more per class.
In addition, considering that the number of outside activities of students after the entrance exam is increasing, this week, we plan to announce whether the quarantine pass will be applied to teenagers as well.