On the first day of the new year, today (1st), the number of new corona19 confirmed cases again exceeded 1,000.
It is 1,029, an increase of 62 from yesterday.
The cumulative confirmed case was 61,769.
For the last week, the number of confirmed cases has risen and decreased a day at 1,000.
From the 26th of last month, daily 1,132 people → 970 people → 807 people → 1,045 people → 1,050 people → 967 people → 1,029 people.
Among the confirmed cases today, 1,004 are domestic outbreaks.
There were confirmed cases in all 17 provinces nationwide.
About 69% of the total was concentrated in the metropolitan area.
By region, there were 358 people in Seoul, 271 people in Gyeonggi, and 63 people in Incheon.
Other regions include Busan 55, Daegu/Ulsan 43, Gyeongnam 34, Gangwon 29, Gyeongbuk 24, Chungbuk 22, Gwangju 16, Chungnam 15, Daejeon 11, Jeonbuk 8, Jeonnam 6, There are 5 Jeju and 1 Sejong.
The number of perjury and severe patients increased by 10 to 354 in total.
The number of deaths increased by 17 in one day, accumulating 917, and fatality rate of 1.48%.
The number of foreign inflows is 25.
There are 13 Koreans and 12 foreigners.
Four of these were confirmed as confirmed during the quarantine phase.
The remaining 21 were confirmed during self-isolation after entering the country.
Estimated inflow countries are 8 people in the U.S., 3 people in Uzbekistan, 2 people each in Indonesia, Portugal, Canada, and 1 person each in China, Philippines, Hungary, Denmark, the UK, Nigeria, Tanzania, and New Zealand.
Yesterday, the number of temporary screening tests in the metropolitan area was 45,738 a day.
149 people tested positive.