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Jeju airport.

Jeju airport.

While the number of visitors to Jeju Island during the Lunar New Year holidays is expected to reach 140,000, Corona 19 confirmed a tourist who traveled to Jeju Island in a rented bus, and quarantine authorities launched an investigation. epidemiological emergency. Jeju Island announced on the 9th that one of the two confirmed corona19 confirmed on the 8th, Mr. A (583 in Jeju), was a family member of a confirmed patient in Gangbuk-gu, Seoul, and had confirmed that he toured Jeju. with three people on day 6. As a result of the first epidemiological investigation, it was found that after entering Jeju, Mr. A traveled in a 45-seater chartered bus. A total of 21 passengers boarded this rented bus, including 19 travelers from various teams, including 4 people, including Mr. A, 1 guide, and 1 bus driver. On the tour, Mr. A was informed of his family’s confirmation at 10 am on the 8th, and was informed as a contact, he visited the Jeju Health Center Screening Clinic at 10:30 am to undergo diagnostic tests and was finally confirmed. At 6 pm. Of the 21 people on the rented bus, 5 have already left for other provinces, and of the remaining 16, Mr. A, a confirmed patient, was in a negative pressure bed at Jeju Medical Center, and 15 were quarantined. The provincial quarantine authorities began to identify the travel routes and contacts that Mr. A visited after his trip to Jeju. The provincial quarantine authorities believe that the combined trips with rented buses are not a violation of the ‘ban on groups of more than 5 people’ in the second stage of social distancing. A provincial official said: “As a result of consultations with the Central Headquarters for Disasters and Security Countermeasures, I received a response that it would be difficult to see it as a private meeting to promote friendship if five or more people who do not know each other for the purpose individual trip. It is believed that the tour was divided into 3 and 4 people on the rented bus. This alone is not a violation of the quarantine rules, but we are checking to see if the confirmed person violated the quarantine rules. ”Meanwhile, despite Jeju Island calling for a refrain from tourism in Jeju during the Lunar New Year holiday, the number of tourists and returnees visiting Jeju in the next 10 to 14 years is expected to reach 143,000, and quarantine authorities are tense By Hur Ho-joon, staff reporter hojoon @ hani. co.kr



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