Gangnam-gu Apartment, Peniel Prayer Center, Hyemin Hospital, etc.

A new cluster infection of coronavirus infection (Corona 19) occurred in an apartment complex in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. The Seoul apartment group infection is the second time after Guro-gu’s apartment last month. There were also confirmed cases at Gwangjin-gu Hospital and Nowon-gu Prayer Center, and an infection in a small group triggered an emergency for quarantine authorities.

According to the Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters (Bangdaebon) and the Seoul Metropolitan Government on the 2nd, 6 confirmed patients related to the Suseo Complex 1 Apartment in Gangnam-gu at 12 o’clock on the day. This apartment is a hall apartment with 2000 homes. The first infected person was the security guard of apartment A. On the 28th of last month, the result of the diagnostic test was positive. The next day, another guard was also confirmed. Subsequently, three families who lived in the apartment and a resident of the neighboring apartment who visited the building where Mr. A. works were infected.

Quarantine authorities believe it is different from the group infection at Guro-gu’s apartments, where an additional 11 residents were infected after the first one confirmed on 23 last month. The infection in Guro-gu’s apartment came only from the same building. Of the 8 households with confirmed cases, 6 were on different floors on the same line and confirmed cases were also found in 2 units on the next line.

However, the infection occurred in 3 buildings in department 1 of the Suseo Complex. Guard A, another guard who received additional confirmation, and B, who was confirmed first among residents, work or live in different dongs. On the 31st of last month, three days after Mr. A’s confirmation, Mr. B was notified of the confirmation. A resident of the nearby apartment who visited the building where Mr. A works and two members of Mr. B’s family were confirmed on day 1.
The city of Seoul has installed a temporary screening clinic in front of Suseo Apartment Complex 1 and is conducting inspections of 987 people, including residents. “We are conducting an epidemiological investigation into the relationship between the security guard and the residents of the apartment,” said Park Yoo-mi, director of the city’s citizen health department. Medium. “There were 10 confirmed cases at Hyemin Hospital in Gwangjin-gu. The first confirmed patient was a nurse from this hospital, classified as a confirmed case on the 31st of last month. In the course of quarantine authorities investigating the contact With the nurse, it was confirmed that 9 more people were confirmed, including 3 fellow nurses, 3 nursing assistants, and 1 doctor. Hyemin Hospital was temporarily closed as of the 31st and the time of reopening has not been decided. On the 28th of last month, 7 members of the hospital staff gathered for dinner and 5 of them were confirmed.Quarantine authorities plan to conduct a full examination of medical personnel and patients suspected of having contacted the confirmed person.

There were additional cases of group infection related to small religious groups. A woman in her 60s who visited the Peniel Prayer Center in Nowon-gu was confirmed on the 28th of last month. During the epidemiological investigation, the woman contacted 15 people, and among them, 7 people who visited the prayer center confirmed that they were infected.

Small-scale infections continue at sports venues and quarantine authorities are monitoring the route of infection. On the 29th of last month, it was judged that 4 additional users of the table tennis court were confirmed at Champion Table Tennis Court in Jungnang-gu, where one confirmed person was confirmed. At the SK Table Tennis Club in Dongdaemun-gu, 8 people, including 7 table tennis users and 1 family, were classified as confirmed. At Mate Fitness, Dobong-gu, only 8 confirmed cases were confirmed, including 5 members, relatives, and 3 acquaintances. A Seoul official said: “Not only indoor sports facilities such as a gymnasium, billiard room, but also a table tennis court, the Pilates court cannot be used until the 6th due to concern of an infection. small group “.

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