Input 2020.12.30 09:30 | Revision 2020.12.30 10:08
1000 people for two consecutive days… 705 people in the metropolitan area, 320 people in the non-metropolitan area, 25 people from overseas
On the 30th, the number of new corona19 confirmed patients recorded 1050, an increase of 4 from the previous day. As the third pandemic began in earnest from the middle of last month, the number of confirmed cases is hitting 1,000 per day. In particular, with the number of confirmed cases pouring out from nursing hospitals and nursing facilities, which are vulnerable to infection, the spread of outbreaks has not subsided as group outbreaks of correctional facilities including Dongbu detention center are added.
Christmas holidays were spent amid various quarantine measures, such as strengthening’social distancing’ and implementing’special quarantine measures for the year-end and New Year’, but there are no obvious declines or clear reversals. The government is planning to re-adjust the distance steps before January 3, next year, when special quarantine measures are over for the year-end and New Year after watching the current situation more.
During the last week (December 24 to 30), an average of 1033 new confirmed cases per day occurred, and the number of confirmed regional cases, which is a key indicator of the adjustment of the distance stage, was calculated at an average daily average of 1009.
Looking at the path of infection of new confirmed patients on this day, local outbreaks were 1025 and foreign inflows were 25.
By region, Seoul 383, Gyeonggi 274, Incheon 48, etc. 705 in the metropolitan area, Daegu 49, Chungbuk 45, Busan 38, Gyeongnam 36, Jeonbuk 32, Chungnam 27, Gyeongbuk 21, Daejeon 19 There are 320 people in the non-metropolitan area, including 17 people in Gangwon, 15 in Ulsan, 10 in Jeju, 9 in Gwangju and 2 in Sejong.
As a major case of infection, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the eastern detention center in Seoul, where a large-scale group infection occurred, increased to 792. In particular, there are concerns that 16 of the people transferred from this detention center to the southern prison have been confirmed, and the related group infection will spread further.
In addition, 12 additional people were added to foreign food stores in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, and the number of confirmed patients increased to 106, and 11 additional inmates were positive at the nursing hospital in Sunchang-gun, Jeonbuk, and the cumulative confirmed number increased to 73. In addition, a total of 21 people, including workers, families, and acquaintances, were infected with the Icheon Logistics Center for Rosen Courier in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province.
The number of confirmed overseas inflows increased by 9 from the previous day. Eleven of the confirmed cases were confirmed during quarantine at the airport or port. The remaining 14 were tested positive while self-isolation at residential or temporary living facilities in Seoul (4), Gyeonggi (3), Daegu, Gyeongbuk (2 each), Busan, Ulsan, Jeonnam (1 each).
Estimated countries for these inflows are the United States with eight, followed by Myanmar with four, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Mexico with two, and Bangladesh, Russia, Japan, Pakistan, Poland, United Kingdom, and Croatia with one each. Among them, 15 are Koreans and 10 are foreigners.
As of 0 o’clock that day, the cumulative confirmed number was 59773. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) Central Defense Countermeasure Headquarters (Bang Dae-bon) excluded 1 each from the number of confirmed cases on the 28th and the previous day as a case of miscount in Seoul was confirmed late. By this day, the number of confirmed cases lifted from quarantine increased by 732 to 41,435. Currently, the number of patients undergoing quarantine treatment increased by 298 to 17,459.
The number of tests per day the previous day was 61,343, which is 1469 more than 5,9874 the day before. The positive rate calculated by calculating the number of confirmed cases compared to the number of tests was 1.71% (1050 out of 61,343). The cumulative reference positive rate was 1.44% (57,733 out of 4.195,522), up from 1.43% on the previous day.
The number of deaths increased by 20 from the previous day to a total of 879.