[속보]985 corona patients, down again 1000 17 deaths

Medical staff are examining citizens at the Corona 19 Screening Clinic established in a public health center in Daejeon on the 23rd, when the number of new coronavirus infections (Corona 19) occurred for the second time in history with 1092 people.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 24th, the number of new coronavirus infections (Corona 19) patients increased by 985 as of 0 o’clock on the day, and the cumulative number of patients was 53,533. The number of new patients decreased by 107 from the previous day (1092), and fell below the 1,000 range again in two days after the 22nd (869).

There were 55,640 inspectors who reported suspicion, and 58091 were inspected through the Metropolitan Area Temporary Screening Inspection Office, and the total number of inspections was 11,3731. The number of new patients found at the temporary screening laboratory was 150.

The number of domestic outbreaks was 955 and foreign inflows were 30, respectively.

Domestic patients were 644 from Seoul (314), Gyeonggi (277), Incheon (53), etc., 43 in Busan, 26 in Daegu, 14 in Gwangju, 11 in Daejeon, 9 in Ulsan, 1 in Sejong, Gangwon 21, Chungbuk 46, Chungnam 29, Jeonbuk 12, Jeonnam 2, Gyeongbuk 50, Gyeongnam 21, and Jeju 26.

The number of foreign inflow patients included 1 in China, 2 in the Philippines, 5 in Indonesia, 3 in Myanmar, 1 in Japan, 1 in Ukraine, 1 in Germany, 1 in Sweden, 14 in the United States, and 1 in Canada.

The number of deaths increased by 17 to 756 (fatality rate of 1.41%), and the number of seriously ill patients increased by 7 to 291.

The number of new quarantine releases increased to 3,7425 by adding 699, and 15,352 are currently being quarantined.

Meetings of five or more people at restaurants nationwide from this day to January 3 of next year are prohibited. In the metropolitan area, private meetings with more than 5 people were banned from the previous day.

Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun presided over the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters meeting that day, saying, “Please all the people to join us in the 11-day pause that began today.”
Reporter Hwang Soo-yeon [email protected]