![[속보] 344 new coronavirus cases… 300 people for three consecutive days](https://image.chosun.com/sitedata/image/202102/15/2021021500730_0.jpg "[속보] 344 new coronavirus cases… 300 people for three consecutive days")
Input 2021.02.15 09:31 | Revision 2021.02.15 09:33
The Central Defense Response Headquarters announced that as of 0 o’clock on the day, 344 new cases of Corona 19 were counted in Korea. The cumulative number of confirmed cases is 8,3869.
In the last week, the number of new confirmed cases has been recorded daily 303 → 444 → 504 → 403 → 362 → 326 → 344. On this day, the number of confirmed cases increased by 18 from the previous day (326), but decreased by 18 from two days ago (362).
Looking at the infection route of the new confirmed patients on this day, 323 local outbreaks and 21 foreign inflows. The area where the confirmed cases came from ▲ Seoul 147 ▲ Busan 15 ▲ Daegu 12 ▲ Incheon 9 ▲ Gwangju 3 ▲ Daejeon 6 ▲ Ulsan 3 ▲ Gyeonggi 99 ▲ Gangwon 1 ▲ Chungnam 9 ▲ Jeonbuk 4 ▲ 4 people from Jeonnam ▲ 8 people from Gyeongbuk ▲ 3 people from Gyeongnam.
The number of deaths increased by five from the previous day. It has accumulated 1527 people. The average fatality rate in Korea is 1.82%. Currently, 8,548 people are being treated, and 73,794 people are released from quarantine.
On the other hand, from this day on, the government has lowered the corona19 social distancing step from step 2.5 to step 2 for the metropolitan area and step 2 to 1.5 for the non-metropolitan area. As a result, the restrictions on business hours for restaurants and cafes in the metropolitan area have been delayed by one hour from 9 pm to 10 pm. In the non-metropolitan area, the business hours restrictions have been lifted.
