Input 2020.12.17 09:31 | Revision 2020.12.17 10:14
On the 17th, the number of new coronavirus confirmed cases was 1014, recording a record of 1,000 for two consecutive days following the previous day. This is the first time since the first confirmed cases in Korea on January 20 this year, more than 1,000 new cases have been recorded for two consecutive days.
The death toll on the previous day was 22, the largest number of deaths since February 20, the first time in Korea. In Seoul, the number of new confirmed cases recorded a record high of 423.
As group infection of vulnerable facilities such as religious facilities, nursing homes, and nursing hospitals and’daily infections’ such as schools and workplaces followed by ski resorts and construction sites continued, the government and Seoul city began reviewing the’three steps of distance’, but the actual upgrade. It is reported that the city is constantly struggling to adjust the details in consideration of the enormous social and economic damage expected.
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In the past week, the average number of new confirmed cases per day reached 908.4, and the average number of confirmed cases per day in the region reached 882.6, which already met the 3rd stage of social distancing (at the time of a rapid increase such as more than 800-1000 people nationwide or more than doubled in a short period). It is a situation.
Looking at the infection route of the new confirmed patients on this day, local outbreaks were 993 and foreign inflows were 21.
In the area where confirmed cases were found, 784 in the metropolitan area, including 420 in Seoul, 284 in Gyeonggi, and 80 in Incheon. The number of confirmed cases in Seoul is the highest ever. Outside the metropolitan area, there were 44 people in Busan, 30 people in Gyeongnam, 20 people in Daegu, 19 people in Chungbuk, 18 people in Jeonbuk, 17 people in Chungnam, 12 people in Jeju, 11 people in Daejeon, 10 people each in Gwangju and Ulsan, and 9 people each in Gangwon-Gyeongbuk. .
Major cases of infection are ▲ construction site in Yongsan-gu, Seoul (61 people) ▲ Nursing hospital in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do (30 people) ▲ Ski resort in Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do (11 people) ▲ Ajou Automobile University in Boryeong-si, Chungnam (cumulative 21 people) ▲ Religious facilities in Jecheon-si, Chungbuk (23 Infectious embers are continuing in various places such as Myeong).
The number of confirmed overseas inflows decreased by 3 from 24 on the previous day. Of these, seven were confirmed during quarantine at the airport or port. The remaining 14 were tested positive while self-isolation at residential or temporary living facilities in Gyeonggi (7), Seoul (3), Chungnam (2), and Daegu and Jeonbuk (1 each).
The most estimated country for these inflows is the United States with 7 people, followed by Indonesia with 4 people, Sweden with 2 people, and the Philippines, Russia, India, Germany, Belarus, Hungary, Algeria and Tunisia with 1 each. There are 11 Koreans and 10 foreigners.
As of 0 o’clock on the 17th, the number of domestic confirmed corona19 patients was 4,6456. By this day, the number of confirmed cases lifted from quarantine increased by 663, to a cumulative number of 33,610. Currently, there are 12,209 patients undergoing isolation treatment.
To date, the number of corona19 diagnostic tests conducted in Korea is 353,8840, of which 3.33,129 were negative, and the remaining 9,9258 were waiting for the results. The number of tests per day the previous day was 571, which is 2522 more than the previous day.
The positive rate, calculated as compared to the number of tests the previous day, was 2.03% (1014 out of 571). The cumulative standard positive rate was 1.31% (44,6453 out of 3538840), up from 1.30% the previous day.
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