As soon as the distance level was lowered, the number of additional confirmed cases exceeded 600. It’s been 38 days. However, more than one hundred additional confirmed cases not included in this number came out of a factory in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province.
This is Jung Joon-ho.
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A long line was lined up in front of the temporary screening and inspection centers quickly installed in the Jingwan Industrial Complex in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province.
A total of 1,200 employees from 59 companies are being inspected.
A Cambodian worker working at a plastic manufacturing plant in the complex was confirmed to be confirmed during the Lunar New Year holiday, and after that, after a full inspection of 170 employees at the plant, 114 more were confirmed.
Of these, 106 are foreign workers, and they are known to have been living and eating together in a dormitory on the third floor of the factory.
[조광한/남양주시장 : 저희가 12시에 (집단) 확진 판정받기 전에 오전에 사안 자체에 좀 심각성을 감안해서 관할 경찰에 협조하에 오전부터 현장을 봉쇄했고.]
Some point out that the infection spread due to procrastination after the first confirmation.
The first confirmed person, a Cambodian employee, was diagnosed with a mild fever on the 13th in Yongsan, Seoul, and this fact was not communicated to the Namyangju Public Health Center, where the factory is located, on the evening of the 15th or two days.
[조광한/남양주시장 : 최초로 용산구 보건소로부터 유선통보를 받은 건 2월 15일, 세부 역학을 넘겨받은 거는 16일(입니다.)]
The results of about 950 people who were inspected yesterday (17th) are expected to be released today, but concerns about the spread of infection are growing as the whereabouts of 6 of the factory workers with the infection have not been identified.