Jeju Region Reports 212 COVID-19 Cases in One Day, Total Reaches 6,011

Published 04 Feb.2022 13:50(KST)

[Jeju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Park Chang-won] On the 3rd, 212 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the Jeju area in a single day.

According to Jeju Special Self-Governing Province on the 4th, 212 people tested positive for COVID-19 as of the previous day, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases to over 6,000, totaling 6,011.

This is the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began that the number of new confirmed cases in Jeju has exceeded 200, surpassing the previous record of 169 cases set just one day earlier on the 2nd.

The weekly number of confirmed cases is also showing an all-time high.

In the past week, a total of 808 people were infected, raising the daily average number of confirmed cases to 115.43 as of 11 a.m. on this day.

Most of the new confirmed cases are locally transmitted. The infection routes include 121 contacts of confirmed cases within the province, 49 contacts of visitors from other regions or confirmed cases from other regions, and 5 overseas entrants, while the infection routes of the remaining 37 cases remain unidentified.

New cluster infection cases have also occurred.

In the ‘Seogwipo City Daycare Center 2’ case, a total of 13 confirmed cases were included in this cluster infection, with the first confirmed case reported on the 1st.

At this daycare center, after one child was initially infected, the other children were subsequently confirmed positive one after another.

New death cases among vaccinated individuals have also been reported.

Jeju Province reported that a man in his 40s who received his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine on October 25 last year died on the 1st. The provincial quarantine authorities are conducting an epidemiological investigation to determine the cause of death and any causal relationship with the vaccination.

Notably, starting from the 7th, if COVID-19 diagnostic tests are taken at screening clinics installed in hospitals and other private medical institutions, patients will have to pay for the testing. This is due to the termination of Jeju Province’s COVID-19 diagnostic test co-payment support program as of this day.

Accordingly, from now on, if COVID-19 diagnostic tests are taken at private medical institutions instead of public health centers, individuals will have to bear costs ranging from 6,000 to 20,000 KRW depending on the institution.

Im Tae-bong, head of the Jeju COVID-19 Response Task Force, said, “The testing system, which allowed anyone to visit private medical institution screening clinics and get tested for free regardless of symptoms, has changed since the day before yesterday to conduct PCR tests only for high-risk groups such as those aged 60 and over, and those who test positive on rapid antigen test kits or self-test kits.” He added, “We ask for the active cooperation and understanding of the residents.”