1. The number of inspections decreased, but 1132 people… Four digits on the second day
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As of today (26th) 0 o’clock, there are 1,132 new cases of Corona 19 in Korea. It was four digits for two days in a row, and the second highest number ever. In particular, although the number of tests yesterday, which was Christmas Day, has decreased significantly, there is no significant difference in the scale of new confirmations, so the spread of corona has not seldom broken.
Reporter Kang Hyun-seok reports.
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As of 0 o’clock today, there are 1,132 new cases of Corona 19 in Korea.
Although the number of new confirmed cases decreased by 109 compared to yesterday, it was four digits for two consecutive days, the second highest ever.
The number of local outbreaks was 1,104, with 762 confirmed cases in the metropolitan area, accounting for about 70%.
The number of deaths has increased by 20, and 793 people have died so far.
The fact that the number of confirmed cases has not decreased is explained by the influence of group infection.
There were 514 confirmed cases related to the Seoul East Detention Center and 163 cases related to the Bucheon Nursing Hospital.
In particular, on Christmas Day yesterday, even though the number of tests decreased by 27,000 from the previous day, the number of confirmed cases exceeded 1,000, and the spread is not seldom broken.
The government plans to hold a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters tomorrow and decide whether to raise social distancing to three stages.
The corona spread trend has not been detected in Japan.
According to NHK, there were 3,800 new cases yesterday, the largest number.
Even in the UK, where the coronavirus strain was found, 570 deaths occurred in England alone, with cumulative deaths exceeding 70,000.
2. My first report of allergy or allergy… Appeals such as dizziness
On the 24th local time, a doctor who received the Corona 19 vaccine from the US pharmaceutical company Modena was reported to have had a serious allergic reaction such as dizziness. The New York Times reported that Dr. Josein Sargerday, of the Boston Medical Center in the United States, complained of symptoms such as an increase in heart rate after vaccination and numbness due to tongue tingling. This is the first time a case of allergic side effects has been reported among Modena vaccinations, Modena said, “the safety medical team will investigate.”
3. Diagnosis of highly pathogenic AI at duck farms in Namwon, Gurye and Cheonan
Chungnam Cheonan Euijong Duck Farm has been diagnosed with highly pathogenic avian influenza. Just one day yesterday, a total of 3 highly pathogenic AIs occurred, from duck farms in Namwon and Gurye, Jeollanam-do to the bell farm in Cheonan. The Central Avian Influenza Accident Control Center said it would preventive killing of poultry raised within a 3km radius, and that poultry farms within a 10km radius would be restricted from movement for 30 days before testing.
4. Warm weekend… Seoul metropolitan and central fine dust’bad’
Finally, the weather. Today, the weekend, there will be a lot of clouds all over the country and the warm weather will continue. The maximum temperature during the day will rise from 2 degrees to 4 degrees from yesterday, such as 7 degrees in Seoul and 9 degrees in Daejeon. Fine dust is influenced by smog from China from the afternoon, and will show a level of’bad’ in the metropolitan area, Yeongseo and Chungcheong provinces. Tomorrow, it will rain in Jeju Island and the southern regions, and there will be places with snow in the northern part of Yeongseo, Gangwon-do.