It increased significantly from the previous day, and crossed the 1,000 mark again in three days after the 26th (1,132 people). The impact of the outbreak of 233 additional confirmed cases in the eastern detention center in Seoul where the group infection occurred.
The government is mobilizing various quarantine measures such as strengthening’social distancing’ and implementing’special quarantine measures during the year-end and New Year’ to curb the spread of Corona 19, but the spread is not easily broken.
In this situation, as the’mutant virus’ originating in the UK, which is known to have a transmission power of 1.7 times, has been introduced into the country, concerns about the possibility of regional spread are also growing.
As the number of critically ill patients and deaths is increasing in the aftermath of the rapid increase in new confirmed cases, the quarantine authorities are struggling to prepare measures. In particular, 40 people died the day before, the highest since the Corona 19 incident.
◇ Another 1,000 people in the region… 802 people in the metropolitan area, 228 people in the non-metropolitan area
The Central Defense Response Headquarters announced that as of 0 o’clock on the day, the number of new corona19 confirmed cases increased by 1,46, accumulating 58,000,725.
238 more than the previous day (808).
Due to the decrease in the number of inspections during the Christmas holiday (12.25~27), it temporarily dropped to the 800 level and then returned to the 1,000 level.
As the third pandemic began in earnest from the middle of last month, the number of new confirmed cases in Korea is rising and falling around 1,000 every day.
From the 23rd of this month to this day, for the last week, the number of new confirmed cases recorded daily 1,90 → 985 → 1,241 → 1,132 → 970 → 808 → 1,46. More than 100 new cases have been confirmed for 52 days from the 8th of last month to this day.
Looking at the infection route of the new confirmed patients on this day, there were 1,30 local outbreaks and 16 foreign inflows.
The number of confirmed cases of local outbreaks increased by 243 from the previous day (787), and this also reached 1,000 people in three days after the 26th (1,104).
In the last week (12.23~29), an average of 1,39 new confirmed cases per day occurred, and the number of confirmed local cases, a key indicator of the adjustment of distance, reached an average of 1,14 per day, again exceeding 1,000.
In the area where confirmed cases were found, 802 in the metropolitan area, including 519 in Seoul, 251 in Gyeonggi, and 32 in Incheon.
In the non-capital area, Daejeon 30, Daegu 29, Gyeongbuk 28, Chungnam 27, Chungbuk 22, Gangwon 21, Busan 17, Gyeongnam 16, Gwangju 15, Jeonbuk 7, Jeju 5, Sejong and Jeonnam There are 4 people each and 3 people in Ulsan. There were a total of 228 confirmed cases in the non-metropolitan area.
In the case of major infections, 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, the scale of infection in various places such as nursing hospitals and nursing homes in Guro-gu, Seoul (accumulated 170 people), 3 hospitals in Goesan-gun, Eumseong-gun, and Jincheon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do (220), food stores and restaurants in Cheonan-si, Chungnam (91), and churches in Dalseong-gun, Daegu (138). It is a growing aspect.
◇ Severe serious illness 330, the most… Yesterday 59,000,874 tests, positive rate 1.75%
The number of confirmed overseas inflows was 16, 5 fewer than the previous day (21).
Of these, five were confirmed during airport or port quarantine, and the remaining 11 were positive while self-isolation at residential or temporary living facilities in Gyeonggi (6), Seoul (3), and 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.
When local outbreaks and overseas inflows are combined, Seoul has 522 people, Gyeonggi 257, and Incheon 32, with 811 people. Nationally, there were confirmed cases in 17 trials.
The number of deaths increased by 40 from the previous day to 859. The average fatality rate in Korea is 1.46%.
There were 330 patients with severe gastric disorders, 35 more than the previous day. The number of patients with severe gastric disorders set the highest record in four days since the 25th (311), surpassing the 300 mark.
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 isolation treatment is 17,163, a decrease of 429 from the day before.
The number of corona 19 diagnostic tests conducted in Korea so far is a total of 4098,000,181, of which 386,8494 have been negative and the remaining 170,962 are waiting for the results.
The number of inspections on the previous day was 59,000,874, 27,000 more than 31,895 on the previous day.
The positive rate, calculated as compared to the number of tests the previous day, was 1.75% (1,46 out of 59,000), down from 2.53% (808 out of 31,895) the day before. As of 0 o’clock on this day, the cumulative positive rate was 1.43% (58,725 out of 4098,000,181).
Meanwhile, Bang Dae-bon announced the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Korea at 0 o’clock the day before, but corrected it to 57,000 679 cases excluding one case in Seoul.
(yunhap news)