775 more than yesterday… Gyeonggi 5534, Seoul 4903
As the COVID-19 epidemic turned to an increasing trend, by 9 pm on the 8th, close to 20,000 new confirmed cases occurred nationwide.
According to each local government, including Seoul, the number of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in 17 cities and provinces across the country from 00:00 to 9pm on the same day was 19,400.
This is an increase of 775 from 18,625 at the same time the previous day.
A week ago, on the 1st, the number of confirmed cases doubled 1.9 times the same time period (10,202 people).
It has tripled compared to the 24th of last month (6,400 people) two weeks ago.
At a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters on the same day, the government said, “Warning lights of the Corona 19 re-pandemic are lit one by one.
It means that COVID-19 has switched to a spreading phase once more,” he said.
In the interim count until 9 p.m., the number of new confirmed cases has been in the late 10,000s for five consecutive days since the 4th (17,146 people).
As there is still time until midnight, when the counting ends, the number of new confirmed cases to be announced on the 9th is expected to record around 20,000.
The number of daily new confirmed cases for one week from the 2nd is 17,12 → 1048 → 6,250 → 18,141 → 19,371 → 18,511 → 10,000 9,323, an average of 14,622 per day.
On this day, 11,481 (59.2%) new confirmed cases were reported in the metropolitan area and 7,919 (40.8%) in non-metropolitan areas.
By region, the number of confirmed cases was 5,534 in Gyeonggi, 4,903 in Seoul, 1,95 in Gyeongnam, 1,44 in Incheon, 781 in South Chungcheong, 745 in Gyeongbuk, 621 in Busan, 603 in Daegu, 580 in Ulsan and 566 in North Chungcheong. , Gangwon 546, Jeonbuk 519, Daejeon 504, Jeonnam 477, Jeju 354, Gwangju 352, and Sejong 176.
/yunhap news
