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The nursing hospital has controlled access to outsiders since last March and has not received visitors. So quarantine authorities are putting weight on the possibility of getting infected through hospital staff. It is also noted that the virus may have spread further in hospitals because many seriously ill patients have difficulty wearing masks.
This is reporter Song Seong-jun.
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From early in the morning to the Hauterak Nursing Hospital, the families of the patients who were surprised by the sudden news of their parents’ confirmation continued.
[정봉규/입원환자 가족 : (아버지) 연세가 아흔인데 고령인데 코로나에 걸려있으면 자식으로서 어떻겠습니까. 걱정되는 마음에 왔어요.]The confirmed cases were concentrated on the second floor of the hospital.
Ten of the 11 confirmed employees are second floor workers, including the nursing assistant who was confirmed for the first time.
Furthermore, 33 of the 42 confirmed patients are patients from the second floor ward.
Quarantine authorities have been monitoring visitors and outsiders since last March, and as they have been tested for corona in the event of a new hospitalization, they are highlighting the possibility of transmission through employees.
[안병선/부산시 시민방역추진 단장 : 외부에서 특히 출·퇴근이 가능한 직원 중에 감염 의심자가 있고 그걸 통해 환자(에서) 다시 직원으로 감염 고리가 이어진 게 아닌가 추정하고 있습니다.]There is also a concern that the virus has already spread for a long time.
The first confirmed person, the nursing assistant, claimed that she had a fever after caring for a critical patient all day 7.
This patient died of fever and dyspnea on day 12 and the posttest was positive.
Eight people have died in this hospital since September from symptoms of fever and shortness of breath, but only in the room of the patient who died on the 12th.
[안병선/부산시 시민방역추진단장 : 하루 이틀 감염이 진행된 것이 아니라 일정 시간 진행된 것으로 생각합니다.]It is also noted that it was difficult to wear a mask because most of them were seriously ill, such as dementia.
The Busan City Health Authority has decided to conduct a large-scale examination of 11 patients and 1,400 employees in 11 nursing hospitals in Mandeok-dong.
(Video coverage: Kyungmoon Jung)
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