The number of corona19 confirmed cases continues to increase this week. It seems that today (11th) will also be in the mid to late 400s. Since the number of confirmed patients has actually re-entered the level of distance 2.5, there is a high possibility that measures such as banning meetings with more than 5 people will be extended again.
Reporter Jeong Ban-seok reports.
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The total number of new confirmed cases nationwide by 9 o’clock last night was 426.
It is 2 fewer than the same time the day before, and the number of new confirmed cases to be announced as of midnight is expected to reach the mid-to-late 400 level today.
The number of domestic outbreaks for the past week, which is a key indicator of adjusting the distance, has actually re-entered the 2.5 stage with an average of 400 per day.
The government will announce a proposal to adjust social distancing tomorrow, which will be applied starting next week. As the number of confirmed cases increases, the possibility of prolonging measures such as banning private gatherings with more than 5 people is increasing.
Among these, 38 people were confirmed in Jinbu-myeon, Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do over two days.
Starting with 11 people including family members, 27 additional people were identified in the process of conducting a total survey of 980 villagers.
At the Soonchunhyang University Hospital in Seoul, where more than 250 confirmed cases last month, 74 people were confirmed to have violated the quarantine rules for wearing masks.
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In Wonju, Gangwon-do, a female worker in a nursing hospital in her 50s who received AstraZeneca vaccine died.
This is the first time that a person who is not a patient in a nursing hospital has died.
The woman was vaccinated on the last 3 days and died the afternoon the day before, and it is known that there have been no symptoms for six days in the meantime.
The woman also suffered from an underlying disease, as with other death reports, and the quarantine authorities are confirming a link to vaccination through an epidemiological investigation.