Sharp Decline in Student COVID-19 Cases After Winter Break
[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] The number of student COVID-19 cases reported in Seoul over the past week has dropped to less than half compared to the previous week.
On the 11th, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced that the number of student cases reported from the 3rd to the 9th was 459, a decrease of 778 from the previous week. The number of confirmed cases among staff was 35, totaling 494. The decline became noticeable since mid-December as most schools began winter vacation and the vaccination rate among adolescents increased.
Infections over the past week were most commonly traced to family transmission (39.3%), followed by in-school transmission (23.2%) and out-of-school transmission (6.5%). Cases with unknown infection routes accounted for 31%.
The number of confirmed cases by school level was ▲Elementary school 236 ▲Middle school 119 ▲High school grades 1-2 46 ▲Kindergarten 37 ▲High school grade 3 8. The incidence rate per 10,000 students was highest in elementary (5.9), followed by middle (5.7), kindergarten (5.3), high school grades 1-2 (3.3), and high school grade 3 (1.1).
Among major cluster infection cases, after one student was confirmed at A Elementary School, 12 additional students were infected. At B Middle School, after one student was initially confirmed, a total of 13 people, including 11 students and 1 staff member, were infected in a cluster.
The proportion of confirmed cases in the education office compared to the total COVID-19 cases in Seoul was 7.1%, a decrease of 6.3 percentage points from 13.4% the previous week.
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