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There were 77 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) in nursing homes and hospitals in Chungbuk. After a confirmed case of corona 19 occurred at the same facility, a total of 125 cases of infection were confirmed in a total examination of 125 residents and workers.
Several infections were confirmed by a full inspection of the facility.
Quarantine authorities, cohort quarantine and epidemiological investigation
On the morning of the 19, 47 new coronavirus (Corona 19) infections were confirmed at the True Love Nursing Home in Cheongju, Chungbuk. The photo shows Cheongju True Love Nursing Home, where access is controlled. Yunhap news
According to Cheongju City on the 19th, 47 people, including 41 residents and 6 workers, were confirmed for Corona 19 at the True Love Nursing Home in Seowon-gu, Cheongju the night before.
In this nursing home, on the 17th, there was a confirmed case of crown 19 in Cheongju No. 222, a facility worker. Subsequently, 11 cases of the nth infection were confirmed, among workers of the same facility, residents and family members. After the group infection outbreak, quarantine authorities conducted a thorough examination of the nursing home officials. In the process, another 47 people were confirmed to be infected. There were 58 confirmed cumulative cases related to the True Love Nursing Home.
Since it is a nursing facility, the infection rate among the elderly who are at high risk for Corona 19 is high. Of 74 elderly residents, 42 were confirmed by Corona 19. Among them, A, a resident in her 80s, who collected samples from Corona 19 on the 17th, died on the morning of the 18th, before the results were known. The post-test result was positive.
Among the workers at the facility, a total of 14 infected people are nurses or cooks. Corona 19 also confirmed two families of caregivers. Quarantine authorities plan to segregate the True Love Nursing Home cohort. As a preventive countermeasure, the city of Cheongju conducted a corona19 diagnostic test on 400 people, including three hospitals and nursing home workers near the True Love Nursing Home, and no confirmed cases emerged.
On the 13th, medical staff are examining citizens at Corona 19 Screening Clinic at a public health center in Cheongju, Chungbuk. Freelancer Seongtae Kim
At a hospital in Eumseong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, where six confirmed corona cases were found19, 30 additional confirmed cases occurred on the 19th. On the 17th, at Eumseong Somang Hospital, 6 confirmed corona cases19 occurred from 45 to 50 It was confirmed in a further examination performed when a patient who had been hospitalized for a long time at Eumseong Somang Hospital was transferred to Goesan St. Mary’s Hospital and confirmed to be crown19.
Quarantine authorities conducted a full corona19 test on 780 people, including hospital patients and medical staff, and discovered a group infection at the hospital. Most of the additional confirmed patients were found to have used the same room with the six patients who were previously confirmed, or visited Goesan St. Mary Hospital.
As a result of the epidemiological investigation, quarantine authorities believe there have been no cases of contact with the public among the confirmed cases. Eumseong-gun said, “Corona19 confirmed patients in this hospital cannot be admitted to hospitals designated as patients with specific diseases, so they will prepare a separate bed in the hospital for quarantine treatment,” he said.
Cheongju Eumseong = Reporter Jin Changil Choi Jong-kwon [email protected]
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