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On the 23rd, the number of new coronavirus confirmed patients recorded 1092, an increase of 223 from the previous day. It is the second largest in history after the last 20 days when 1097 confirmed cases occurred. In the previous two days, the number of inspections on weekends and holidays fell below 1,000.
Before deciding whether to adjust the third stage of’social distancing’ this weekend, the government completely banned meetings of five or more people in the metropolitan area from this day to January 3, next year. From the 24th, the measure will be expanded to restaurants nationwide. Winter sports facilities such as ski resorts will be suspended, and sunrise spots such as Gangneung Jeongdongjin will be closed.
As group infections in vulnerable facilities such as religious facilities, nursing homes, and nursing hospitals, and’routine infections’ continue in schools and workplaces, the quarantine authorities predict that 1,000 to 1200 confirmed cases per day will come out next week.
Looking at the infection route of the new confirmed patients on this day, 1060 local outbreaks and 32 foreign inflows. During the last week (December 17-23), an average of 1015.9 new confirmed cases per day came out, and the number of confirmed regional cases, a key indicator of the adjustment of distance, reached an average of 986.3 per day, looking at 1,000.
In the area where confirmed cases were found, 718 in the metropolitan area, including 373 in Seoul, 299 in Gyeonggi and 46 in Incheon. In the non-capital region, Chungbuk 58, Gwangju 35, Daejeon 34, Jeju 33, Busan 32, Gyeongnam 28, Gyeongbuk 25, Daegu 24, Jeonbuk 20, Ulsan 16, Gangwon 13, Jeonnam 12 , Chungnam 11 and Sejong 1 The total number of confirmed cases in the non-metropolitan area was 342, the highest after the’first pandemic’ centered on Daegu and Gyeongbuk. The highest record just before the 3rd pandemic was 337 on the 19th.
In the case of major infections, a total of 107 people were infected with the nursing hospital and nursing home in Guro-gu, Seoul, and 86 were confirmed in the cases of Goesan, Eumseong, and Jincheon-gun hospitals in Chungbuk. In addition, as the infection of Jeju religious facilities spread through meetings and saunas, a total of 112 confirmed cases were reported, and 31 people were infected with religious facilities in Dong-gu, Daegu.
The number of confirmed overseas inflows was 32, down 13 from the previous day. Nine of the confirmed cases were confirmed during quarantine at the airport or port. The remaining 23 were self-quarantine in Gyeonggi (11), Seoul/Incheon (3 each), Ulsan (2), Gwangju, Daejeon, Jeonbuk, and Gyeongnam (1 each). received.
Indonesia is the most estimated country with 9 people, followed by the United States with 6 people, Russia with 5 people, Britain with 4 people, and the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Hungary, Turkey, Sweden, Germany and Australia with 1 each. Among them, 21 are Koreans and 11 are foreigners.
As of 0:00 on the 23rd, the cumulative confirmed number was 52,550. By this day, the number of confirmed cases lifted from quarantine increased by 798 to a cumulative 36726. Currently, the number of patients undergoing quarantine treatment increased by 277 to a total of 15,085.
The number of inspections per day the previous day was 50,4141, 4,430 fewer than the 5,8571 the day before. The positive rate, calculated as the number of confirmed cases compared to the number of tests, was 2.02% (1092 out of 54411). The cumulative standard positive rate was 1.37% (52,550 out of 3,821,751), up from 1.36% on the previous day.
The number of deaths increased by 17 from the previous day, resulting in a total of 739 deaths.