One More COVID-19 Case Related to Nursing Home Confirmed in Gwangju...Total 1,370 Cases

Cumulative Confirmed Cases Related to Evergreen Nursing Home Total 76

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Gwan-woo] One additional COVID-19 case was confirmed in Gwangju Metropolitan City, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 1,370.

According to Gwangju City on the 11th, as of 6 p.m. that day, one person was confirmed positive and classified as Gwangju case number 1,370.

The Gwangju 1,370 case, a resident of Buk-gu, was identified as a confirmed case related to the Evergreen Nursing Home, where a large-scale cluster infection occurred in the region. He was already classified as a contact of the Evergreen Nursing Home cluster and was in self-quarantine when he tested positive.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases related to the Evergreen Nursing Home to 76.

In Gwangju, including the previously announced five cases, six new confirmed cases occurred as of today.

All of these confirmed cases are transmissions from existing infection sources.

Three cases are related to Hyojeong Nursing Hospital, two cases related to Gwangju case number 1235, and one case related to Evergreen Nursing Home.

The quarantine authorities announced that the reproduction number, which indicates the average number of people one infected person transmits the virus to, decreased to below 1.0 as of the previous day.

The reproduction number, which had been above 1.0 in the past week, dropped to 0.79 for the first time yesterday.

The reproduction number was recorded as 1.31 → 1.33 → 1.33 → 1.24 → 1.13 → 1.06 → 0.79 from the 4th to the 10th.

The quarantine authorities believe that the spread of local infections has somewhat slowed compared to the peak period during the year-end and New Year holidays.

On the 3rd, Gwangju recorded a new daily high with 73 new confirmed cases.

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