[사회]792 confirmed cases related to eastern detention center…courts and prisons also’emergency’

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The number of confirmed cases related to the Eastern Detention Center in Seoul increased by 30 within a day, and the cumulative number of patients reached 800.

As the confirmed cases here were confirmed after attending the court or being transferred to another prison, the correctional authorities decided to conduct a fourth thorough investigation.

Connect with reporters who are out on the scene. Reporter Hong Min-ki!

Yes, there is a concern that the eastern detention center outbreak could spread to other facilities?

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Yes, it is.

On the 23rd, 17 people who were transferred from this eastern detention center to other correctional facilities were confirmed.

There are about 170 prisoners who were transferred after being negatively judged during the first and second full test.

Among them, 16 people who went to Seoul southern prison and one who went to Gangwon northern prison were confirmed.

The Ministry of Justice explained that there are no additional confirmed cases other than those transferred to the eastern detention center in the prison, and the transfers are separated and managed in a separate space.

It was also confirmed that confirmed cases of the Eastern Detention Center were present at the court by mid-month.

There were 1 in the Seoul Central District Court, 70 in the Seoul Northern District Court, and 11 in the Seoul Eastern District Court.

Each court quarantines the entire court and conducts diagnostic tests on judges and employees classified as contacts.

In the meantime, the cumulative number of confirmed cases related to the eastern detention center increased to 792.

It has 750 prisoners, 21 employees, and 21 family members and acquaintances.

About 1 out of 3 prisoners were confirmed.

Epidemiological investigations revealed that the eastern detention center had a typical’three mil’ structure.

In the apartment-style structure, ventilation was poor and it was difficult to separate and accommodate confirmed patients.

The detention center, which has a capacity of 2,000 people, actually housed 2,400 people, and there was also an overcrowding.

Reporters were captured by cameras of some detainees waving towels out of the detention center window or reporting the internal situation that more than 8 people were in a room.

Yesterday, there was also one death.

After a man in his 60s was confirmed confirmed, he was released from prison on the 24th and received quarantine treatment at the Life Therapy Center.

The Ministry of Justice said the man was a person with an underlying medical condition who had been receiving hemodialysis.

The detention center is preparing for the 4th full-scale examination for detainees who have previously been negative.

It covers a total of 1,840 employees and prisoners.

The health authorities plan to designate the Dongbu detention center itself as a life treatment center and manage it as the number of confirmed cases continues to appear among prisoners.

Until now, YTN Hong Min-ki in front of the Eastern Detention Center in Seoul[[email protected]]is.

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