Information session on Cordyceps plant 發 infection spreads nationwide

On the 4th, citizens who want to undergo tests in front of Corona 19 Screening Clinic at Buk-gu Health Center in Daegu line up with a distance of 2 meters or more. On the 29th of last month in the basement of the Dongwoo Building in Buk-gu, Daegu, a business briefing was held and 22 of the 25 attendees were collectively infected. Daegyu = Newsis

A new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) started at a cordyceps-related trade presentation held in the basement of a building in Daegu, which spread to participants across the country and led to a collective infection. Of the 25 people who attended the briefing, 22 were confirmed as a group, and one nth infection was also added through these confirmed people.

According to Daegu City on the 4th, there were 19 additional confirmed cases related to the cordyceps business briefing, including 8 cases in Daegu. It is spreading not only to Daegu but also to other regions, with 5 people in Gyeongnam, 4 people in Gyeongbuk, and 1 person each in Chungnam and Chungbuk. Including the 4 infected on the 1st and 2nd, the 23 confirmed cases related to the information session.

The briefing was held on the 29th of last month on the first basement floor of the Dongwoo Building in Chilseong-dong, Buk-gu, Daegu. Primarily, retired seniors in their 60s and 70s attended from across the country to hear explanations about cordyceps-related projects. Quarantine authorities believe the briefing was held in an underground space that is too narrow and unventilated to fill 25 people, ignoring quarantine rules. Mr. A (69, female), the organizer of the briefing, presented about an hour without the mask, and it was found that many participants had listened to the explanation without the mask. After the briefing was over, the participants hung up and ate watermelons.

The quarantine authorities estimate that organizer A served as an infection vector. Mr. A met with a confirmed patient who attended the Gwanghwamun assembly in Seoul on Liberation Day two days before the event. Mr. A was classified as a contact with the confirmed person and was confirmed on day 1 as a result of undergoing a diagnostic test. Husband (74) and son (46) were confirmed the same day. The next day, an additional 70-year-old man who attended the briefing was infected, and 19 confirmed cases were added on 3 and 4.
Not only are the briefing participants emerging, but also concerns about outreach to the local community. The son of a confirmed patient living in Gumi, Gyeongbuk, who attended the briefing, went to work at a mask maker located in Chilgok on the 1st and 2nd. Another briefing confirmed the briefing on the food business healthy events held in Mungyeong on day 1, and quarantine authorities began to identify the contact person. The Corona 19 group infection also occurred at an undeclared door-to-door cosmetic sales company in Bongcheon-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul. Employee B (72) was confirmed for the first time on the 30th of last month, and two more people, including the company representative and another employee, were confirmed on the 1st and 2. Mr. B’s wife and daughter were also confirmed in turn, and there are currently five confirmed cases.

Quarantine authorities believe that people over the age of 70 and 80 often visit this company for food or consultation. The office is narrow, 56m² in size, but employees and visitors have been known to chat without masks. It is reported that the confirmed employee was in charge of the meals when commuting to the company office every day. Quarantine authorities are concerned a similar situation will occur in June, as a large-scale confirmed case came from unregistered door-to-door sales companies such as Richway and Smile Muhangu Group.

Daegu = Minjun Myung [email protected] / Reporter Jihoon Lee