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COVID19 Cases are worsening as community infections keep building up.

Jeju has seen 31 cases on November 18th, 23 on the 19th, 15 on the 20th, and 17 on the 21st.

Clusters attributed to this result. They include 31 infected from a primary school in Jeju City, 53 from a high school in Seogwipo City. Also listed are 37 from a sauna in Seogwipo City, and 69 from a senior nursery home in Jeju City.

Amide reintroduction of 'Lock Down' in some countries aborad, Korea is officially 'not there yet'. This is much better although there is still a possibility for `pulling down the bar'.

Saunas and high schools become epicenters for community infections of COVID19 in Jeju, Korea.

Jeju government has recently sent texts to residents with encouraging users of saunas to take PCR tests for the coronavirus. The saunas are mostly women's floors including ones in Ildo2-dong, Namwon-eup, Pyoseon, Yongdam-dong, and Seogwipo City.

The cases confirmed till now count to 50 as of the midnight of November 16th.

A nursery hospital in Jeju City became a victim, too, as it had 62 people infected.

High schools in Seogwipo City has got 42 cases as of the 17th.

This is making not only the authorities but people worry that the eased restrictions on social activities since COVID19 may be tightend again.

With new COVID19 cases under 10 a day, Jeju has confirmed some visited a sauna in Jeju city.
They are #3022, #3024, and #3027, and they went to Dongmyeong sauna.
So, the city advised people who used the facility on the following dates to get tests. They are
October 11(Mon) 10:00~14:00
October 13(Wed) 10:00~14:00
October 15(Fri) 10:00~14:00

It had more cases from a tojo(20 altogether) and sauna 4(4 altohether) in Jeju on the 19th.
Jeju also made it public that an infected person on the 12th went to Friends Karaoke. It recommended goers to it should get themselves checked up.
The dates and times are
October 12~16(Tue~Sat) 18:00~22:00

The COVID19 cases slow down after it peaked on the liberation day. Herd infections made people worry, but didn't spread the coronavirus as much it could.

The number of cases reached as many as 64 on August 15th. And it continued to mark high as
37 on the 16th, 46 on the 17th, 37 on the 18th, 56 on the 19th, 52 on the 20th.
But it went down to 35 on the 21st, then, it kept around 30 like 32 on the 22nd, 30 on the 23rd, 27 on the 24th, 30 on the 25th.
And, August 26th recorded 23, which is under 30 first ever since August 11th. It was followed by 21 on the 27th, 13 on the 28th, and 12 on the 29th.

The herd infectios are as follow(all in Jeju City)
64 from a private academy
101 from a noraebang, singing room
24 from a mart
14 from a general hospital.

Is it getting bettet at all with COVID19 in Jeju?
Jeju made a new record of 64 cases(#2079~2142) of infection on August 15th. This came after 39 on the 14th and 55 on the 13th.
Community contraction led to this result. The biggest is from a private academy of middle school students. 28 people(#2079, 2080, 2082~2085, 2088, 2091, 2092, 2094, 2106~2108, 2110, 2113~2115, 2118~2121, 2123, 2124, 2126~2128, 2132, 2134) were influenced, among them, 24 are students.
Jeju daycare center added 1(#2095), and social gatherings did 4(#2102, 2103, 2109, 2129).

The problem is that there can be more. And it is highly possible as students got infected.
So, Jeju government decided to take the social distance regulations to Level 4. This takes effect as the midnight of August 17th. You cannot hang out with more than 3 people after 6pm as a result. Many harsher rules will apply.

Vaccination is undergoing. However, even the vaccinated can't be sure of safety as variants are spreading over.
For now, wearing a mask and keeping away from crowds are the best option.
Let us keep in healthy!

COVID19 cases are still increasing in Jeju since early May.

It had 7 cases(#996~1002) on May 27th, 13(#1003~1015) on the 28th, 8(#1016~1023) on the 29th, 7(#1024~1030) on the 30th, and 12(#1031~1042) on the last day of May.

It went on to 14(#1043~1056) on the first day of June, 12(#1057~1068) on the 2nd, 21(#1069~1089) on the 3rd, 22(#1090~1111) on the 4th, 19(#1112~1130) on the 5th, and 13(#1131~1143) on the 6th. It had 8 cases(#1144~1151) on the 6th, which is the first time to have the number under 10 in the new month.

According to Jeju, the total cases in Jeju summed up to 1,042 as of June 1st at 11:00 am. It had cases every day in May, which got 328 tested postive. This surpassed 87 cases in April by 241 more, which is 3.8 times. This means May portioned 52.8% of the year-to-date number of 621.

It was the second that had more than 300 cases in a month after December which had the 3rd epidemic since the first case on February 21st last year.

Jeju analyzed that May 'the month of family' made people contact more in families and groups and led them to bigger numbers of COVID19 positive. The relevant proofs are that small collective infection in family, schools, and daily lives.

In May, 15 days had more than 10 cases in a day. This means 10.6 people every day. The worst was 26.

Out of 328 new cases in May, 302(92%) were Jeju residents. 225(68.6%) were chased to have been infected by contacting other patients. This was different from April when 71.2%(62 pax) got contracted after visiting other region, meeting people who tested positive later, or traveling from abroad.

■ Herd infection has contributed the big increase since the varsity athletes on May 3rd, to public places like singing rooms, and to private zones like schools, companies, etc.

Family gathering and wedding reception parties became the spreader of the coronavirus since the mid May.

149 people, 45.4% of the whole cases in May, are by cluster infection. 66 of them are from the varsity group, which is the biggest. 24 are from companies and wedding receptions, 14 from a family reunion, 12 from restaurants, 12 from public baths, 9 from friend-gatherings, 7 from a company in Seogwipo city, and 5 from a clan gathering.

■ The R0, or reproduction numbers, that means how many infections a confirmed person bring out, rose up to 2.28 in May, but it got down to 0.98 now.

It changed as 1.13(4.27~5.3) → 2.28(5.4~10) → 0.90(5.11~17) → 0.98(5.18~24) → 0.98(5.25~31) in Jeju.

 Jeju has been in a good control over the novel coronavirus outbreak as it has only 12 confirmed positive cases while 4 of them discharged from the hospital.

 Out of the 12 confirmed cases, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 7th are fully recovered and released from in-bed care by the authority.

 The most unique patient is the No. 1, a naval soldier in his 20s, as he spent about a month getting over the virus, and tested postive again while being closely monitored after discharged from the hospital. The second confirmation was not as vivid as the first, but the local governmnet is keeping an eye on his condition.

 The one point to be noticed is that Jeju has more confirmed patients who returned to Jeju from studying abroad like the other citied in Korea. No. 7 to 12 are the cases except for No. 11, who is a family to No. 9. Considering No. 5 & 6 tested positive after coming back from taking a language course in Spain, all the infections in Jeju seem to have foreign origins.

 This makes me wonder what keep Jeju from getting community-acquired infection. Is it the government control, the cooperation of local people, or the clean and comparatively wet environment of Jeju?