After the Lunar New Year holiday, the distance between them has also been lowered, and the number of corona19 patients is increasing again. The number of additional confirmed cases was 621, which again exceeded 600 in 38 days. This number also seems large, but additional patients who have not yet been included in the count were added today (17th). At a factory in Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do, 115 people have been confirmed so far.
Let’s look at reporter Sohee Han’s report first, and I’ll connect you right away.
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A long line was lined up in front of the temporary screening and inspection station that was quickly installed along the road.
In the Jingwan Industrial Complex in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, over 1,200 employees of 59 companies are being inspected.
A mass infection occurred at a plastics manufacturing plant in the complex.
After a Cambodian nationality worker who visited Seoul’s older sister’s house during the Lunar New Year holidays was confirmed, a total inspection of 170 employees at the factory was conducted, and 115 were confirmed.
Among them, 106 are foreign workers, and they are known to have stayed and eaten 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 mild fever on the 13th in Yongsan, Seoul, and this fact was not communicated to the Namyangju Health Center, where the factory is located, only two days or the evening of the last 15th.
[조광한/남양주시장 : 최초로 용산구 보건소로부터 유선 통보를 받은 건 2월 15일, 세부 역학을 넘겨받은 거는 16일 어제 오후 3시 10분입니다.]
While 18 epidemiological investigators are urgently employed, close contacts are identified through CCTV analysis and the path of infection is traced.
(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol, Video editing: Kim Jun-hee)
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