Corona 19 spread in Itaewon Club, ‘second spread’ embers in hospitals, military and call centers

There is growing concern about the ‘second spread’ of the new infection from the coronavirus infection group (Corona19) at the club in Itaewon, Seoul.

According to the Central Quarantine Countermeasures Headquarters (Bangbang) and local governments on the 11th, the crown cases19 spread to families, acquaintances and colleagues among the confirmed people they are following. Eleven of the club’s 54 confirmed infections (20.37%) were contacted by the confirmed one.

The Seongnam City Medical Center in Gyeonggi is concerned about whether this will lead to a ‘hospital group infection’ when a nurse is confirmed in the operating room.

Currently, the operating room is closed and all 520 medical personnel undergo a corona diagnostic test19.
The Ministry of National Defense also had an emergency. An executive and a soldier in contact with a sergeant from the Defense Department’s Cyber ​​Operations Command who visited Club Itaewon were also confirmed. A captain in the direct division of the Army was also confirmed after visiting the Itaewon club.

Call center staff, department store staff, etc. they also became famous at the Itaewon club.

According to the city of Seoul, 5,517 people visited five Itaewon clubs and taverns during the golden holiday. This is the number excluding 1705 duplicates among 7222 business visitors. In the exhaustive survey conducted the previous day, 1982 people “were not contacted” due to false phone numbers.

Local governments and quarantine authorities monitor the card’s usage history and urge visitors to report voluntarily, but the situation is not good.

Among the clubs that have been visited by confirmers, there are facilities frequently used by sexual minorities, and they are reluctant to expose themselves to accusations of going to the club during the period of “social distance”. Also, due to the nature of Corona 19, there are many cases where there are no symptoms in the early stages of infection, making it difficult for an infected person to be alert. To date, 30% of confirmed cases are asymptomatic.

In the briefing the day before, Bang Dae-bon boss Jung said: “It is a situation that finds a link to a wide range of diagnostic tests and blocks additional diagnostics.” Request a diagnostic test, with or without it. ”

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