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29,581 new confirmed cases… Below 30,000 on Saturday in 15 weeks

An official from the Korea Travel Association (KATA) is being tested at the COVID-19 testing center dedicated to domestic and foreign tourists that opened at the Samkwang Medical Foundation in Seocho-gu, Seocho-gu, Seoul on the 9th. (Photo = Yonhap News)

[이데일리 김정유 기자] As of Saturday, the number of new COVID-19 cases fell below 30,000 for the first time in 15 weeks.

According to the Central Quarantine Countermeasures Headquarters on the 14th, as of 00:00 on that day, there were 29,581 new confirmed cases of Corona 19. The cumulative number of confirmed cases is 17,756,627.

It was the first time in 15 weeks since January 29 (17,509) that the number of new confirmed cases was below 30,000 as of Saturday.

This is 2,870 fewer people as of the previous day. In the past week, the number of new confirmed cases was 4029, 2589, 49,923, 43,916, 35906, 32,451, and 29,581, with an average of 36,059. is a person

As of this day, the number of patients with severe serious illness was 341, a decrease of 6 from the previous day. As of the 13th, the number of deaths from COVID-19 was 55, down 3 from the previous day. Among them, the number of teenage deaths increased by one, and so far, the number of teenage deaths from COVID-19 has risen to nine.

Among the new confirmed cases, 25 were imported from abroad. The number of local cases in Korea is 29,556.

By region, △Gyeonggi 6982 △Seoul 4764 △Busan 1540 △Daegu 1516 △Incheon 1413 △Chungnam 1283 △Jeonnam 1234 △Jeonbuk 1205 △Gangwon 1155 △Chungbuk 1086 △Gyeongbuk 2107 △Gyeongnam 1959 △ Gwangju 986 △ Daejeon 890 △ Ulsan 781 △ Jeju 405 △ Sejong 272 △ quarantine 3