Daejeon and Chungnam Set New Daily Records for COVID-19 Confirmed Cases

On the 30th, citizens visiting the COVID-19 screening clinic conducted rapid antigen tests using self-test kits. If the test result is positive, they immediately move to the adjacent PCR testing site for a PCR test. The photo is unrelated to the article. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy (Daejeon·Hongseong) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The number of new COVID-19 confirmed cases in Daejeon and Chungnam is breaking records daily.

According to Daejeon City on the 1st, 462 new confirmed cases were reported in Daejeon the previous day.

In Daejeon, following 429 confirmed cases on the 28th of last month, 449 people tested positive for COVID-19 on the 29th. After a slight dip to 446 cases on the 30th, the number of confirmed cases surged again on the 31st, setting a new record, indicating that the spread of COVID-19 infections in the region is not easing.

The total number of confirmed cases over the past week reached 2,939, with an average of 420 new cases per day. One confirmed patient died the previous day, raising the cumulative death toll to 196.

The spread of COVID-19 is also evident in Chungnam. The total number of confirmed cases in Chungnam the previous day was 730 (including 10 overseas arrivals), surpassing 700 cases in a single day for the first time.

Until the 23rd of last month, Chungnam maintained an average of 200 confirmed cases per day. However, with the Omicron variant becoming the dominant strain recently, the number of confirmed cases has rapidly increased.

By date, the confirmed cases were in the 300s on the 24th, 400s on the 25th and 26th, and 600s on the 27th and 28th, showing an increase of about 100 cases daily or every two days.

In Chungnam, a total of 3,996 new COVID-19 confirmed cases were reported over the past week, averaging 571 positive cases per day.

As of the previous day, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Chungnam was 25,702, with 198 deaths and 7,167 people currently isolated or hospitalized for treatment.

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