Gwangju Reports 6,998 New COVID-19 Cases... Consecutive Daily Record Highs Set View original image


[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Jin-hyung] In the Gwangju area, the daily number of new COVID-19 cases has surpassed 6,000 for the first time, setting record highs day after day.


According to Gwangju Metropolitan City on the 3rd, 6,998 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in a single day yesterday.


Among them, 6,994 were locally transmitted cases, and 4 were imported cases.


The main infection routes include 19 cases related to a hospital in Dong-gu, increasing the cumulative total to 94.


There were 18 cases related to a nursing home in Buk-gu, and 2 additional cases at a nursing hospital in Gwangsan-gu, raising the total to 29.


The rest were infections through contact with acquaintances and family members or cases where the infection route was not identified.



Looking at the occurrence status over the past two weeks, between the 17th and 20th of last month, cases were in the 2,000 range; on the 21st, in the 3,000 range; from the 22nd to the 28th, in the 4,000 range; and on the 1st of this month, in the 5,000 range.


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