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At a kimchi factory in Cheongyang-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, a group of 19 people were confirmed, and there is an atmosphere of concern about the spread of the infection in the local community.
In particular, it is due to anxiety that the infected employees at this factory live in some cities and counties adjacent to Cheongyang-gun and that they will spread to the local community through their families.
According to the quarantine authorities of Chungnam Province on the 3rd, the place where the COVID-19 outbreak occurred is a kimchi factory in Bibong-myeon (Hanul Nongsan) in Cheongyang-gun. The total number of workers is 127.
Currently, there are 19 confirmed employees in this factory. It has 18 employees and a family. By region, there were 17 in Cheongyang-gun, 1 in Boryeong, and 1 in Hongseong.
The first occurrence was confirmed at Cheongyang No. 2, and it was at the company from August 26 to August 31. On September 1, he visited the Cheongyang-gun Health Center with a cold symptom and was confirmed the next day after receiving self-isolation. Consequently, the quarantine authorities conducted a comprehensive investigation of 134 people (employees, bus drivers, restaurant workers) who had contacted the second confirmed case and found 19 related confirmed cases who had close contact in the bedroom. Currently, the workplace has been disinfected and closed.
The quarantine authorities collected environmental samples such as changing rooms and bathrooms, which are the main places of exposure, and collected all the food such as kimchi distributed in the market. In-depth epidemiological investigations are also scheduled for confirmed patients.
Cheongyang-gun was a clean area where there were no confirmed cases until August 15. However, after the 15th of last month, rumors spread that a bus had been lifted in Cheongyang during the Liberation Day demonstration, and the first confirmed person left on the 25th. And in a week, it increased to 18 people excluding to residents of other regions.
As a result, there were 369 confirmed cases in Chungnam. Among them, 179 people occurred in 34 days, including 149 in August and 30 in September.
Therefore, the province has started to verify compliance with the quarantine rules for vulnerable workplaces in the manufacturing industry.
The inspection targets are concentrated and vulnerable businesses such as IT, meat processing industry and electronics assembly businesses. Commercial sites with 10 or more employees per city and county were instructed to conduct mandatory inspections. The inspection details are whether the inspection items on the workplace checklist are met.
High-risk facilities for COVID-19 must also be verified for the implementation of operating restrictions.
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