“Six days before the golden holidays, visit the Itaewon club visitor” -Chosun.com

Disaster Security Response Headquarters, 10th afternoon “If you visited the Itaewon Club in Seoul from April 24 to May 6, avoid leaving and you can inspect regardless of symptoms. 1339 (Call Center) An urgent disaster message was sent to people.

The first infection patient of the Itaewon club group, A (29, Yongin, Gyeonggi), visited the club from the night of 1 to the dawn of 2, and the confirmed visit time of the patients is between 1 and 5 days. . The government believed that the visitors would have gathered at the club before and after the golden holidays (from April 30 to May 5), and would conduct a diagnostic test on visitors from ’24 November to dawn on 6 May. ‘. Guided through summaries and texts on disasters.

However, on the 10th, the government advanced the target time six days earlier. In response, Jung Dae-bon said: “It was on April 24 that the first place among Itaewon clubs that resumed business was from April 24 to May 6.

From March 22 to April 19, the government implemented a high-intensity social distance by recommending banning entertainment such as nightlife taverns. Since April 20, the government entered a relaxed social distance that reduced the recommended level to “operational restriction”. . The Itaewon Club, which closed due to high intensity social distance, said that it was on April 24, just after the implementation of social distance positioning, that the club that resumed its business was the first to reopen the business, and asked Itaewon club visitors to perform a diagnostic test for 11 days.

On the 10th, the head of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jung Eun-gyeong, asked visitors to the Itaewon club to receive a rapid diagnostic test at the briefing at the Central Defense Response headquarters.

“If the indictment is delayed 2-3 days, another exposure occurs in the meantime,” Jung said. As 30% of patients confirmed on day 9 were infected without a crown or suspicious symptoms such as fever or cough, people who came to the Itaewon Club before and after the golden holidays requested a diagnostic test, even if they had no symptoms.

“The Itaewon Club group outbreak happened about a week after the first outbreak on the 2nd, but there are already 54 confirmed people,” said Jeong Eun-kyung. “It is a situation where the speed of spread is very fast and the infectious characteristics are high enough to report cases.”

He said: “In healthy young people, they recover without any significant symptoms, but these epidemics accumulate in the community.” We hope that once the virus is exposed to the elderly or the underlying, people with weak immunity will be extremely fatal. “