As of today (24th) 0 o’clock, the number of new corona19 confirmed patients in Korea has dropped to 300 again. However, there is still news of a new group infection. Face-to-face worship on weekends was allowed, and on the first weekend, today, members of a church in Gwangju were group infected.
This is Seo Jun-seok reporter.
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As of 0 o’clock today, 392 new cases of coronavirus are confirmed.
Local outbreaks are 369 and foreign inflows are 23.
The number of new confirmed cases went up to 400 yesterday and fell to 300 again a day later.
Although the momentum of the third pandemic has declined, sporadic mass infections in the region continue, and the possibility of the spread of a mutant virus from the UK remains.
It is also an anxiety factor that the proportion of patients who do not know the route of infection rarely decrease.
Although the number of new confirmed cases is declining, the proportion of patients with an unknown path of infection has not fallen from the 20% range for one month.
The government plans to review the current’social distancing’, which ends on the 31st of this month, and whether to adjust the ban on meetings of more than 5 people.
As a major case of infection, a bunch of confirmed cases came from Gwangju Bitnaeri Church.
The city of Gwangju said 15 of the 17 new confirmed cases that occurred the day before were confirmed to be related to the church.
The infected were known to members of the church and their families who worked together in a choir.
The city is considering whether to conduct a Corona 19 test on all members of the church.
In the midst of this, today, face-to-face worship is held at each church across the country.
Face-to-face worship is possible up to 10% of the number of seats in the metropolitan area and up to 20% of the number of seats in the non-metropolitan area.
Other than regular worship service, meals or revival meetings are still not allowed.