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Quarantine authorities are investigating contacts, as additional transmission may have occurred in the cabin of a family member infected with the mutant virus of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
Jung Eun-kyung, head of the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters (Bang Dae-bon), said in a regular online briefing on the 28th: ”Because it was confirmed positive at the time of entry, there is the possibility of contagious power on the plane. ” I’m doing.”
“Most foreign immigrants self-isolate at the facilities, etc., and are inspected within 3 days of entry, so passengers traveling with us are handled within the basic quarantine system and quarantine”. “The investigation and inspection of the contact is ongoing,” he explained.
He added: “Families with mutant viruses entered the country on the 22nd and were confirmed during an inspection at the airport and immediately moved to a quarantine facility, so exposure to the community would have been minimized.” I think it is, “he added.
Four family members living in London, England entered the country and three of them were confirmed to be infected with the mutant virus. Of the three confirmed cases, two children under the age of 19 and a father over the age of 30.
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They are currently known to have some Corona 19 symptoms, such as fever.
The number of passengers on the same plane as the family was 62 and 12 crew members.
Of these, all 12 crew members first tested negative. Flight attendants are generally exempt from quarantine and undergo diagnostic testing only if they have symptoms, but flight attendants departing from the UK are subject to diagnostic testing regardless of symptoms at the time of entry.
In addition to this family, the confirmation of four other members of Goyang-si’s family, Gyeonggi-do, who entered the country from the United Kingdom on the 8th and 13th of this month, and an examination is currently being carried out. detailed to detect infection with the mutant virus.
One of the family members in Goyang-si in his 80s was confirmed after death on the 26th, and three families were confirmed one after another.
First, three of the family members who entered Korea on the 13th of this month are known to be in self-quarantine immediately after entering the country, so the possibility of regional spread is low.
But online, there were eyewitness accounts that the family used an elevator in the building they lived in during self-isolation, the confirmed person fell in the hallway, and some neighbors had contacted at the time.
Kwak-jin, Head of Patient Management Team Bang Dae-bon, replied: “There have been no reports that he (the deceased) left the quarantine area during the self-isolation period, but we are currently checking the facts in this part”.
Meanwhile, 1,640 full-length genome tests have been counted so far, comparing and analyzing all the nucleotide sequences of the viral genome to determine if a mutant virus infection has occurred.
Through explanatory data, Bang Dae-bon said: “It takes 7 days for full genome analysis and 7 days for phylogenetic analysis to determine if a mutant virus is infected, so it takes a total of 2 weeks, but considering that (this case) is an emergency, the mutation occurred. The analysis time was reduced by an intensive analysis of known areas. “
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