[전국]’Balcak’, a temple visited by a confirmed patient in Seoul…

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A temple-related mass infection occurred in Yeongam, Jeollanam-do, and a whole small rural village was quarantined.

The spread of infections related to the BTJ Universal Center continues, but it raises concern as more than a thousand visitors are still not being tested.

Reporter Song Se-hyuk reports.

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An access control line was installed at the entrance to a village in Yeongam, Jeollanam-do.

When the COVID-19 outbreak occurred, movement restrictions were imposed on two villages where 130 people lived together.

The outbreak is believed to have originated in a small temple in another village.

After a confirmed person in Seoul visited the temple, it was investigated that infected believers and others contacted the residents, leading to nth infection.

Infections related to the Yeongam Temple spread to nearby Gangjin.

This is the first time that a corona 19 confirmed person came out in Gangjin.

The aftermath of group infection at the BTJ World Center in Sangju, Gyeongbuk, a missionary facility for Protestants continues.

The number of visitors to the World Center since November last year,

However, one in three of them has not yet been tested.

[임숙영 / 중앙방역대책본부 상황총괄단장 : 현재 감염이 지속되는 종교시설의 방문자 등은 즉시 검사받기를 요청드립니다.]

Cheongju City accused the police of three visitors to the Nation Center who did not care about the administrative order and did not undergo diagnostic tests.

The police, who previously arrested two managers of the Center for the Nations, are expanding investigations into key executives to see if there was any interference with the systematic epidemiological investigation.

YTN Song Se-hyuk[[email protected]]is.

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