Yesterday, the Positive Rate of Entrants from China Was 6.8%... More Than Double Compared to the Previous Day

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[Asia Economy Reporter Byeon Seon-jin] The positive rate among arrivals from China who were immediately tested at the airport was found to be 6.8%.

According to the Central Disease Control Headquarters on the 27th, among 1,533 people who arrived at Incheon International Airport from China the previous day, 307 short-term foreign visitors underwent polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing at the airport testing center, and 21 tested positive. The positive rate was 6.8%, more than double the previous day's rate of 3.3%. The airport test positive rate has remained in the single digits for 14 consecutive days.

Since the 2nd, a total of 36,876 people have entered through the airport from China. The cumulative positive rate for short-term visitors tested at the airport reached 10.4% (728 out of 6,977).

Meanwhile, among the new confirmed cases on this day, 49 were imported cases. Of these, 20 people (40.8%) were arrivals from China.