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Jeju added 114 cases tested positive for COVID19 from Friday through Sunday

46(#4067~4112) on December 10.
4 from a middle school in Jeju City(71 to date)
1 from a traveling group in Jeju City(20 to date)

32(#4113~4144) on December 11.
5 from a middle school in Jeju City(76 to date)
1 from a restaurant in Jeju City(16 to date)

&
36(#4145~4180) on December 12.
3 from a middle school in Jeju City(79 to date)
1 from a church in Jeju City(27 to date)

When, please, when is it going to be alright with this evil bastard?!
It is another Christmas season!

47 people(#4020~4066) tested positive for COVID19 on December 9.
3 are from the primary school 2 in Jeju City(47 to date)
4 from the middle school in Jeju City(62 to date)
2 from the church in Jeju City(26 to date)

As of 5pm, December 10th
15(#4067~4081) cases were added.
3 are from the middle school in Jeju City(67 to date)
1 from the traveling group in Jeju City(20 to date)

But, 31 more were confirmed to be infected later that day. So it totaled to 46.

The next day saw 32 cases(#4113~4144) more on the list.

The pictures were taken from Jeju Dream Tower in Jeju, Korea.

Things are getting worse in Jeju as well with COVID19.
It has got another cluster infection from a middle school that has had 47 cases in total as of 5pm on December 7.
The number of daily cases are 19 on the 4th, 38 on the 5th, 56 on the 6th, and 45 on the 7th.
This led the Jeju government and council to coming together for pleading to people of using cautions in daily life.
They advise people to be careful not to spread the coronavirus.

Hamdeokseowoobong Beach
Jeju, Korea
December 4, 2021

21 New Cases Confirmed For
COVID19 Positive
On December 3
(#3783~3803)

2 from a primary school in Jeju City(32 in total)
1 from a spiritual service in Jeju City(18 in total)
1 from a visiting group to Cheonan(12 in total)
1 from a traveling squad in Jeju City(13 in total)

Jeju added 77(27+31+19) new cases of COVID19 positive for last three days(November 30~December 2). It has seen two places(a restaurang and a sauna in Hallim) developed as community infection center.

Jeju has zero case of COVID19 yesterday after 71 days since April 12.
The increase of new daily infection has, thus, come to an end with two on June 19th, three on the 20th, and one on the 21st. It all started with the college wrestling athletes on May 4th with some group infection cases followed.

The statistics reads that it has had 27 cases for the last week, which averaged up to 3.86 a day dropping from 5.14.
But, June recored 192 cases which is the second most next to last month.

The R0 for the virus went down to 0.58 that means it is under control. The number of quarantined decreased to 609(231 contacted, 378 from abroad), which topped over 2,000.
Jeju, however, keeps a close eye on the mutant virus thay may lead to more community infection.

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.

Is it a sign of falling of new cases of COVID19 infection?

Jeju had only 4 cases of the infection on May 18th after two weeks' tough time with more than 10 cases (even 24 on May 10th) on most dates.

It began with wrestling atheletes of a university infected on May 4th, when had 9 cases. The coronavirus has contracted 63 people so far. This has been revealed that young people moved around, which had more chanced of infecting each other noraebang(karaoke rooms), internet cafes, and so on.

A family gathering for spiritual service has set a big shade of the virus as much as 17 cases till now.

A public bath became a center for 12 patients.

And there are 8 cases going back to cases 851 and 852(May 9th) who are related to Gwangju case 2565.

According to the analysis by Jeju today, it has had 480 cases this year only. 187 are from this month, which is the biggest number of all. Out of the 187, 171 are Jejuites. 136 from 187 were infected by contacting infected people in Jeju. It spreaded more through families, friends, etc.

  Jeju had 1 case of COVID19(#500) out ofr 507 tests on January 18. This marks up 79 altogether in 2021, and 11 in the last week with the average case a day 1.57.

  Case 500 tested positive at around 6pm, but is under investigation for itineraries. The person stated having a dinner with friends from the mainland before, Jeju revealed.

  However, the whole check-up on 83 people on a local juvenile penitentiary ended up with 0 case after the final one on the 18th before they were released from isolation. They had no positive case at the first look-at on the 6th.

Jeju had 2 cases(478-479) of COVID19 on December 17th.
- 478: Contacted case 475 who tested positive on the 7th. Been in isolation since.
- 479: Contacted a person who was infected with the coronavirus in Gwangju. This person visited the city on December 14th.