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BEIJING: A Chinese factory owned by South Korean semiconductor giant SK Hynix halted operations on Sunday (November 29) after a worker at the plant was found to have an asymptomatic COVID-19 infection, the official Xinhua news agency reported. .
The Korean worker based at the plant in Chongqing city since February left for South Korea on Thursday, Xinhua reported.
He was tested at Incheon Airport in Seoul and confirmed positive for the new coronavirus on Saturday, it reported.
All factory workers, as well as staff members and recent guests at the hotel where the worker lived, were isolated and subjected to nucleic acid tests, the news agency said.
“We are cooperating with the local government in their containment efforts and, at the same time, we are trying to resume production as soon as possible,” a SK Hynix spokesman said.
He declined to comment on the impact the suspension would have.
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SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest memory chip maker, employs some 2,700 workers at the Chongqing facility, including some Koreans.
The city has carried out nucleic acid tests on 3,283 people, and 2,674 came back negative, Xinhua said. Nearly 500 environmental samples were also collected, and all were negative.
China reported 11 new coronavirus cases in mainland China by November 28, compared to six cases the day before, the health authority said Sunday.
All the new infections were imported cases, the National Health Commission said in a statement. There were no new deaths.
China also reported 10 new asymptomatic patients, compared with four the day before.
As of November 28, mainland China had a total of 86,512 confirmed coronavirus cases, it said.
The death toll in China from the coronavirus was unchanged at 4,634.
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