437 new confirmed, 400 again… group infection at religious education facility in Daejeon

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 In Gwangju, 15 confirmed cases related to a church in Buk-gu poured out, and children are waiting to undergo a corona19 diagnostic test at a temporary screening clinic set up in a kindergarten in Buk-gu, Gwangju, where the confirmed patients went to.

In Gwangju, 15 confirmed cases related to a church in Buk-gu poured out, and children are waiting to undergo a corona19 diagnostic test at a temporary screening clinic set up in a kindergarten in Buk-gu, Gwangju, where the confirmed patients went to.
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The number of new confirmed cases on the 25th was again around 400, while the situation of Corona 19 has generally entered a real phase.

The previous day, it fell to the second half of the 300 level and reached the 400 level again.

Initially, the number of new confirmed cases was expected to decrease to the early 300s due to the decrease in the number of holiday tests, but the scale of infection increased as more than 120 people were diagnosed at IEM International School, an unauthorized religious education facility in Jung-gu, Daejeon.

Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun expressed concern over the new group infection and urged the first responders to take thorough countermeasures so as not to lead to a large-scale spread such as the Shincheonji Church of Jesus (Shincheonji) or the BTJ World Center in Sangju, Gyeongbuk.

The government is planning to determine whether or not to adjust the current’social distancing’ (stage 2.5 in the metropolitan area, stage 2 in the non-metropolitan area) and the ban on meetings of more than 5 people this week, ending at the end of this month while watching the flow of confirmed cases.

Out of 405 local residents, 176 people in the metropolitan area, 229 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 corona 19 confirmed cases increased by 437 to a cumulative 75,000.

Compared to the previous day (392), there are 45 more.

The’third pandemic’ of Corona 19 in Korea, which continued from mid-November 2020, peaked on the 25th of last month (1,240 people) and is showing a gradually decreasing trend.

As of this month, the number of new confirmed cases per day is 1027 → 820 → 657 → 1020 → 714 → 838 → 869 → 674 → 641 → 657 → 451 → 537 → 561 → 524 → 512 People → 580 → 520 → 389 → 386 → 404 → 401 → 346 → 431 → 392 → 437 people, all of them were below 1,000 except for two days. In the last week alone, 300 people have 3 times and 400 people have 4 times.

Looking at the infection route of the new confirmed patients on this day, 405 local outbreaks and 32 foreign inflows were found.
In the area where confirmed cases were found, 176 people were in the metropolitan area, including 91 in Seoul, 72 in Gyeonggi and 13 in Incheon.

In the non-capital area, there were 125 in Daejeon, 19 in Busan, 15 in Gwangju, 14 in Daegu and Gyeongbuk, 13 in Chungnam, 11 in Gyeongnam, 8 in Chungbuk, 3 in Gangwon and Jeonnam, and 2 in each of Ulsan and Sejong. There were a total of 229 confirmed cases in the non-metropolitan area, unusually higher than those in the metropolitan area. Daejeon IEM International School group infection had a great impact.

In the case of major infections, 127 confirmed cases, including students and faculty members, came out at the IEM International School in Jung-gu, Daejeon operated by IM Mission.

In addition, 10 and 9 people were tested positive at day care centers in Namdong-gu, Incheon and Jinju-si, Gyeongnam, respectively, and the cumulative number of cases of day care centers in Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do increased to 20.

In the non-metropolitan area, there have been cases of infection involving multicultural centers, churches, and public baths.

Cumulative 275 patients with severe gastric disorders…

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 In Gwangju, 15 confirmed patients related to a church in Buk-gu poured out, and children are undergoing corona 19 diagnostic tests at a temporary screening clinic set up in a kindergarten in Buk-gu, Gwangju, where the confirmed patients went to.

In Gwangju, 15 confirmed patients related to a church in Buk-gu poured out, and children are undergoing corona 19 diagnostic tests at a temporary screening clinic set up in a kindergarten in Buk-gu, Gwangju, where the confirmed patients went to.
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There were 32 confirmed overseas inflows, 9 more than the previous day (23).

Eleven of the confirmed cases were confirmed during quarantine at the airport or port. The remaining 21 were positive while self-isolation at residential or temporary living facilities in Seoul (11), Gyeonggi (4), Busan, Daegu, Incheon, Gwangju, Gangwon, and Gyeongbuk (1 each).

Estimated countries for these inflows are the United States 7 people, Indonesia 5 people, Russia 4 people, UK, Poland, Tanzania 2 people each, China, Myanmar, UAE, France, Bulgaria, Denmark, Turkey, Mexico, Cameroon, Ghana 1 each to be. Among the confirmed cases, 19 were Koreans and 13 were foreigners.

When local outbreaks and foreign inflows (excluding quarantine) are combined, Seoul has 102 people, Gyeonggi 76 people, Incheon 14 people, and 192 people in the metropolitan area. Nationally, confirmed cases were found in 15 provinces excluding Jeonbuk and Jeju.

Meanwhile, the number of deaths increased by 11 from the previous day to 1360. The average fatality rate in Korea is 1.80%.

The number of patients with severe gastric disorders fell by 7 from the previous day to 275.

By this day, the number of confirmed cases lifted from quarantine increased by 426 to 62,956, and the number of patients currently undergoing quarantine treatment is 11,205 as in the previous day.

To date, the number of corona 19 diagnostic tests conducted in Korea is 5,376,000,086, of which 516,06016 have been negative, and the remaining 13,4549 are waiting for the results.

The number of inspections per day the previous day was 21,737, which is 2,905 fewer than the 24642 ​​of the previous day. This is 22,81 fewer than the 46,618 on Friday last week, the week before.

The positive rate, calculated as compared to the number of tests the previous day, was 2.01% (437 out of 21,737), up from 1.59% (392 out of 24642) the day before. The cumulative positive rate at 0 o’clock on this day is 1.40% (75,521 out of 5376,000).

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