Weekly Nationwide Student COVID-19 Cases at 30,000 Range... 25,000 Fewer Than Previous Week

30,086 New Cases in the Past Week
17% of Student Cases Compared to 4 Weeks Ago

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases among students has decreased to the 30,000 range over the past week. The downward trend in confirmed cases continues around the time of normal school attendance.

According to the Ministry of Education on the 4th, a total of 30,086 students from nationwide kindergartens, elementary, middle, high, and special schools were confirmed positive for COVID-19 during the week from March 26 to April 2.

The weekly number of confirmed student cases decreased by about 25,000 compared to the figure announced a week earlier (55,146).

The number of confirmed student cases steadily declined from 173,430 in the first week of April (April 5?11), to 94,654 in the second week (April 12?18), and 57,322 in the third week (April 19?25).

In the most recent week, elementary school students accounted for the highest number of confirmed cases at 15,703, followed by middle school students at 7,534, high school students at 4,942, and kindergarteners at 1,720. The cumulative number of confirmed student cases this semester is 2,063,574.

Over the past four weeks, the total number of confirmed cases among school-age children was 67,197, representing 18.4% of all confirmed cases. The proportion of confirmed cases compared to the previous week decreased by 1.3 percentage points. The proportion of student cases among the total was 8.2%, down 1.8 percentage points from the previous week.

As of the 2nd, 81.6% of students participated in the self-diagnosis app. The number of students who received instructions to refrain from attending school was 27,257.

At 24 mobile PCR (polymerase chain reaction) testing sites nationwide, a total of 181,093 specimens were collected from February 28 to April 2. Among these, 22,677 cases (12.5%) tested positive.

The number of confirmed cases among school staff in the past week was 4,291, a decrease of 2,859 compared to the previous week. The cumulative number of confirmed staff cases is 187,207.

During the same period, the number of confirmed cases among university students was 1,752, and among university staff was 366.

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