The Central Defense Response Headquarters announced that as of 0 o’clock on the 27th, the number of new confirmed cases of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) in Korea increased by 970 to a cumulative 5,60872. The death toll increased by 15 to 808 on a cumulative basis.
The number fell by 162 people from the previous day (1132 people) and fell below 1,000 people again in three days after the last 24 days (985 people).
However, the decrease in the number of new confirmed patients on this day reflects the impact of the weekends and holidays when the number of tests decreases, especially the Christmas holiday this time, so it is difficult to conclude that the spread trend has been reduced.
As the current “social distancing” (the 2.5th stage of the metropolitan area and the 2nd stage of the non-metropolitan area) ended on the 28th, the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (Company) meeting on the afternoon of this afternoon discussed ways to adjust the stage, including whether or not to raise the stage 3 It is a plan to be confirmed.
Looking at the infection route of the new confirmed patients on this day, local outbreaks were 946 and foreign inflows were 24.
By region: ▲ Seoul 359 ▲ Gyeonggi 237 ▲ Incheon 60 ▲ Busan 40 ▲ Daegu 21 ▲ Gwangju 17 ▲ Daejeon 8 ▲ Ulsan 1 ▲ Sejong 6 ▲ Gangwon 23 ▲ Chungbuk 24 ▲ Chungnam 55 ▲ Jeonbuk 7 ▲ Jeonnam 5 ▲ Gyeongbuk 32 ▲ Gyeongnam 44 ▲ Jeju 7 There is still a strong spread of metropolitan area (656).
In the case of overseas arrivals, there were a total of 24 people, and by country of origin, 18 people from Asia other than China ▲1 from Europe ▲4 people from the United States ▲1 from Africa, 15 Koreans and 9 foreigners.
As of 0:00 on the 26th, 38532 people were released from quarantine on the 26th, and 39,040 as of 0:00 on the 27th. The number of patients in quarantine was 16,577 and 17,024, respectively, on the 26th and 27th, and the deaths were 793 and 808, respectively. The average fatality rate in Korea is 1.42%.
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