Input 2020.12.29 09:31 | Revision 2020.12.29 10:04
802 people in the metropolitan area, 228 people in the non-metropolitan area, 16 people from overseas
On the 29th, the number of new corona19 confirmed patients recorded 1046, an increase of 238 from the previous day. After the record of 1132 people on the 26th, it has entered the 1000 line again in three days. The impact of the outbreak of 233 additional confirmed cases in the eastern detention center in Seoul where the group infection occurred.
The death toll on the previous day was 40, and the number of deaths occurred since February 20, the first time in Korea. The cumulative death toll is 859.
Christmas holidays were spent amid various quarantine measures, such as strengthening’social distancing’ and implementing’special quarantine measures for the year-end and New Year’, but there are no obvious declines or reversals. It has been confirmed that the’mutant virus’, which is prevalent in the UK, has also flowed into the country as a result of being overwhelmed, and the quarantine authorities are in emergency.
During the last week (December 23-29), an average of about 1039 new confirmed cases per day occurred, and the number of confirmed regional cases, a key indicator of the adjustment of distance, was counted at an average daily average of 1014, and again exceeded the 1,000 level.
Looking at the infection route of the new confirmed patients on this day, there were 1030 local outbreaks and 16 foreign inflows. The number of confirmed local outbreaks also crossed the 1,000 mark again three days after the 26th.
By region, Seoul 519 people, Gyeonggi 251 people, Incheon 32 people, etc. 802 people in the metropolitan area, Daejeon 30 people, Daegu 29, Gyeongbuk 28, Chungnam 27, Chungbuk 22, Gangwon 21, Busan 17 people. , 16 in Gyeongnam, 15 in Gwangju, 7 in Jeonbuk, 5 in Jeju, 4 in Sejong and Jeonnam, and 3 in Ulsan. There were a total of 228 confirmed cases in the non-metropolitan area.
As a major case of infection, more than 200 people were added in the eastern detention center in Seoul, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases increased to 748. In addition, △ Nursing hospitals and nursing homes in Guro-gu, Seoul (cumulative 170 people) △ Three hospitals in Goesan-gun, Eumseong-gun, and Jincheon-gun, Chungbuk (220) △ Food stores and restaurants in Cheonan, Chungnam (91) △ Dalseong-gun, Daegu (138), etc. This is the aspect of getting bigger.
The number of confirmed overseas inflows decreased by 5 from the previous day. Five of the confirmed cases were confirmed during quarantine at the airport or port. The remaining 11 were positive while self-isolation at residential or temporary living facilities in Gyeonggi (6), Seoul (3), Ulsan and Jeonbuk (2 each).
Estimated countries for these inflows are the United States and India, three each, Myanmar and Lithuania, two each, and the Philippines, Uzbekistan, Russia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Germany. Among the confirmed cases, 6 are Koreans and 10 are foreigners.
As of the 29th, the cumulative confirmed number was 58725. By this day, the number of confirmed cases lifted from quarantine increased by 1,435 to 4,703 cumulatively. Currently, the number of patients undergoing quarantine treatment is 17,163, down 429 from the day before.
The number of tests per day the previous day was 5,9874, which is 27,7979 more than the 31,895 the day before. The positive rate for calculating the number of confirmed cases compared to the number of tests was 1.75% (1046 out of 59874). The cumulative criterion positive rate was 1.43% (58,725 out of 409,8181).