On the first day of the new year, yesterday (the 1st), the number of new corona19 confirmed 824 people, which fell to 800 in five days since the 28th of last month. However, there is also an impact that the number of diagnostic tests of suspected patients has decreased by more than 20,000 on weekdays. Five additional cases of mutant virus infection from the UK and South Africa have also been confirmed.
This is Park Chan-beom reporter.
The government has put significance in that the growth of patients in the metropolitan area has slowed somewhat.
The average number of confirmed cases per day in the metropolitan area for the last week was 652, a little less than 707 a week ago.
[권덕철/보건복지부 장관 : 환자 증가율이 둔화하고 있으며, 감염재생산지수도 1에 근접하고 있습니다.]
The occurrence of confirmed cases is still concentrated in the metropolitan area.
In the eastern detention center in Seoul, 13 additional detainees were confirmed, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases increased to 958.
In addition, additional infections in vulnerable facilities such as nursing homes continued.
The number of confirmed cases infected with the corona mutant virus increased by five.
Three out of four additional confirmed UK mutant virus infections are the family of a man in his 80s who was diagnosed as’confirmed after death’ on the 26th of last month.
One of them was confirmed to have visited a beauty salon and mart near their residence in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, after entering Korea before other families in November of last year, and before being confirmed.
The quarantine authorities said, however, that none of this person’s contacts have been confirmed yet.
People who arrived from South Africa via the United Arab Emirates on the 26th of last month were also found to be infected with the South African mutant virus.
In order to prevent the spread of the foreign mutant virus to the local community, the government has made it mandatory for foreigners to submit a’voice confirmation’.
[임숙영/중앙방역대책본부 상황총괄단장 : 출발일 기준으로 72시간 이내에 발급받은 PCR(유전자증폭검사) 음성 확인서를 제출, 의무화할 예정입니다.]
Effective from the 8th for the airport and the 15th for the port.
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