[속보]344 new diagnoses, 300 for three consecutive days… Local occurrence 323 people

Jung Eun-kyung, Director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention./News1 © News1 Reporter Jang Soo-young

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that 344 new cases of coronavirus infection (Corona 19) in Korea occurred as of 0 o’clock on the 15th. It was an increase of 18 people from the previous day and recorded 300 people for three consecutive days.

Among them, 323 cases occurred in the region and 21 were inflows from overseas. The number of confirmed cases in the metropolitan area was 255 (147 in Seoul, 99 in Gyeonggi, and 9 in Incheon), which accounted for 78.9% of the nationwide.

From 0 o’clock on this day, the government lowered and implemented social distancing in the metropolitan area to the second stage and 1.5 stages in the non-metropolitan area, respectively. It is two weeks until the 28th. The operating time limit for multi-use facilities in the metropolitan area has been extended by 1 hour from 9 pm to 10 pm, and the business hours limit for non-metropolitan areas has been lifted.

The ban on private gatherings with more than 5 people was maintained, but an exception was applied to immediate family members. Accordingly, a family member of 5 or more people can have a family meeting at a restaurant, etc., if the person is a direct relative (direct blood relative under civil law).

The quarantine authorities plan to review the adjustment plan for quarantine measures after observing the trend of confirmed cases over the next two weeks. It is a position that if stability continues in the metropolitan area, the ban on private gatherings with more than 5 people can be reviewed.

The trend of new confirmed cases in Korea is from the 2nd to the 15th (2 weeks) ‘336→467→451→370→393→372→289→303→444→504→403→362→326→344. Appeared.

Excluding cases of overseas inflow, the regional trend was ‘295 → 433 → 429 → 350 → 365 → 326 → 264 → 273 → 414 → 467 → 384 → 345 → 304 → 323 people’.

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