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Today (8th), the number of new corona patients set a record for the most. As of 11 o'clock last night, the number has already surpassed 6,400, which is more than the all-time high. Today, at most, the number is expected to reach around 7,000. The number of infected people with Omicron mutation also increased by 12, bringing the total to 36, and the first case of infection was also found in Seoul.



Correspondent Koh Ji-hyun.



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So far, the highest daily number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Korea was 5,352 on the 4th.



However, from 00:00 to 9pm yesterday, the number of confirmed cases nationwide has already surpassed the figure on the 4th, and the number was 5,704.



The number of daily confirmed cases, which will be announced soon, is expected to exceed 6,000, recording an all-time high of around 7,000.



Three international students attending Seoul National University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and Kyunghee University each tested positive for Omicron.



[Hankook University of Foreign Studies Student: The Social Sciences Center has a rather large floating population, so there is a sense of insecurity. As for the exams, the professors themselves switched all of them to non-face-to-face... .] In



particular, in the case of Seoul National University, three other foreign students in the dormitory who had come in contact with a student infected with Omicron were confirmed and classified as suspected of Omicron.



It was investigated that they visited a local church in Incheon where the Omicron cluster infection occurred on the 28th of last month with three international students who were confirmed to be infected.



Although many of the confirmed cases are concentrated in the Incheon area, infections have already been confirmed in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do and Jincheon, North Chungcheong Province.



In the case of the delta mutation, it took five weeks for the number of domestic infections to exceed 30, whereas for Omicron, the number increased to 36 in one week.



It is because of the rapid spread of infection, but in Incheon, a restaurant worker wearing a mask came into contact with an Omicron infected person for only one minute and was infected.



[Sohn Young-rae/Chairman of Social Strategy Division at the Central Accident Resolving Headquarters: Perhaps it is a part to analyze while looking at the results of analysis abroad and the subsequent conditions of confirmed people in Korea.]



The church in Incheon, the center of infection,

said

, We acknowledge that it was the beginning of the spread of Omicron because we did not say exactly what we did."