[사회]1,046 new patients… 40 additional deaths

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The number of new corona19 confirmed cases surpassed 1,000 again in three days.

Special quarantine measures are being implemented during the year-end and New Year holidays, but there is no significant decline.

We will try to find out more by connecting reporters. Reporter Shin Hyun-jun!

In the aftermath of the Christmas holiday, the number of new patients, which had decreased to 800, increased again, right?

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As of 0 o’clock today, there were 1,046 new cases in total.

238 people increased from the previous day.

When looking at the route of infection, there were 1,030 domestic outbreaks and 16 foreign inflows.

There are still many infected people in the metropolitan area.

Seoul 520, Gyeonggi 250, and Incheon 32 with 802 new patients.

In the non-metropolitan area, patients came from all 17 provinces nationwide, including 30 in Daejeon, 29 in Daegu, and 28 in Gyeongbuk.

Of the 16 confirmed overseas inflows, 5 were confirmed during the quarantine stage.

The quarantine authorities pointed out that there are more negative factors for the current situation.

It was revealed that the risk of daily infection is still high due to the high positive rate or the rate of unknown infection route.

He also cited as a negative factor that mutant viruses will someday lead the global epidemic, which makes responding to Corona 19 increasingly difficult.

However, it was positively evaluated that the number of new occurrences in multi-use facilities is decreasing, and the reproductive index is also on the decline.

It was analyzed that distance distancing is a disproving that begins to take effect.
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The death toll increased by 40 in one day, the largest ever since the outbreak of Corona 19, right?

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The number of additional deaths increased from 40 to 859.

28 people, 70% of the deaths, were cases in nursing hospitals.

The quarantine authorities said that the number of deaths occurred this month in particular, and the scale of the outbreak is increasing, and the loss of lives of elderly people in vulnerable facilities such as nursing homes and nursing homes appears at a time lag.

However, he explained that the sudden increase in the number of deaths was also affected by delays in reporting deaths during the holiday season.

As for the date of death, it revealed that 13 people died yesterday, 11 people died on the 27th, and 16 people died before that time.

In the midst of this, a total of 48,000 tests were conducted at the temporary screening test in the metropolitan area yesterday, and 119 people were found hidden.

Accordingly, the government decided to extend the operation of the temporary screening laboratory, which was scheduled until the 3rd of next month, for another two weeks.

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In the meantime, the quarantine authorities also announced the results of a follow-up investigation of a mutant virus from the UK, right?

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The quarantine authorities say the virus has been confirmed in the United Kingdom only in three families who have entered the country so far.

They were confirmed positive when they entered the country on the 22nd, raising the possibility of transmission inside the aircraft.

As a result of the epidemiological investigation, there were 17 contacts in total.

All are in-flight contacts, with 12 crew members and 5 passengers.

To date, all test results have been confirmed negative, and self-isolation and symptom monitoring are currently underway.

The quarantine authorities said that to block the influx of mutant viruses into the country, they have strengthened the fever standard for foreigners and expanded diagnostic tests before quarantine.

He added that flights departing from the UK will be temporarily suspended until January 7th, required to submit negative PCR confirmations, and are imposing restrictions on visa issuance in the UK and South Africa.

Another family from England, who was suspected of a mutant virus, explained that they are currently undergoing full-length genome analysis.

YTN Shin Hyun-joon at the Ministry of Social Affairs[[email protected]]is.

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