Average of 169.4 Students Confirmed Daily Over 5 Days... 8 Fewer Than Previous Week

847 Confirmed Cases Over 5 Days... Decrease Compared to Last Week
80% of All Students Attending In-Person Classes
Half of Schools Conducting Remote Classes Are in Seoul

On the 14th, a temporary COVID-19 screening clinic is operating at Dong Seoul Bus Terminal in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul. The quarantine authorities installed the clinic right next to the terminal to allow citizens traveling to or coming from the provinces during the Chuseok holiday to use it conveniently.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] Over the past five days, the average daily number of COVID-19 confirmed cases among kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school students was 169.4.

According to the Ministry of Education on the 14th, from the 9th to the 13th, a total of 847 students tested positive for COVID-19. The number of student cases in the previous week (September 2?8) was 177.4 per day, the second highest this year, and the average daily cases over the past five days decreased by 8 compared to that period. Since the start of the school year in March, the cumulative number of confirmed student cases is 16,707.

As of 10 a.m. on the same day, 97.2% (19,872 schools) of the 24,446 schools nationwide were conducting in-person classes, and 2% (413 schools) had discretionary holidays. In the metropolitan area, 93.8% (7,264 out of 7,742 schools) held in-person classes, and 4.8% (369 schools) took discretionary holidays. In non-metropolitan areas, 99.2% (12,608 out of 12,704 schools) held in-person classes, and only 0.3% (44 schools) took discretionary holidays.

There were 161 schools conducting remote classes. By region, these included ▲Seoul 78 schools ▲Gyeonggi 20 schools ▲Chungnam 13 schools ▲Incheon 11 schools, among others.

The number of confirmed student cases by region was ▲Gyeonggi 249 ▲Seoul 221 ▲Incheon 70 ▲Daejeon 50 ▲Chungnam 43 ▲Daegu 43 ▲Gyeongnam 31 ▲Busan 27 ▲Chungbuk 22 ▲Gwangju 19 ▲Ulsan 18 ▲Gyeongbuk 15 ▲Jeonnam 13, etc.

There were 28 confirmed cases among school staff over five days, averaging 5.6 per day. Since March, the cumulative number of confirmed staff cases is 1,656.

In the past five days, there were 285 new confirmed cases among university students and 17 among university staff. The average daily confirmed cases are 57.0 for students and 3.4 for staff. The cumulative confirmed cases are 7,670 for university students and 649 for university staff.

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