“Concerns turn into reality”… New Year’s Day family gatherings in Busan are confirmed one after another

On the morning of the morning of the 17th, when the number of new corona19 confirmed 600 people was recorded, citizens are waiting for the test at the temporary screening inspection center prepared in the Seoul Station Square. [연합뉴스]

The number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) after family gatherings during the Lunar New Year holidays is increasing.

The Busan City Health Authority announced on the 17th that as a result of examining 3847 suspected patients the previous day, 26 (2066~3091) were confirmed. Among them, 5 people, including Busan No. 3069~3071, No. 3085, and No. 3086, were identified as family members in Gyeongnam No. 2068. It was investigated that they met one after another at their parents’ house in Busanjin-gu, which was the Lunar New Year holiday on the 11th, and at their home in Gimhae-si, Gyeongnam on the 12th and 13th.

Of the 11 family members who attended the family meeting, 9 family members including 3 Gyeongnam, 5 Busan, and 1 Gyeongbuk, including Gyeongnam No. 2068, the indicator patient, were confirmed and 2 were negative. The health authorities are investigating the fact that these families have violated the ban on private gatherings with more than 5 people, a quarantine rule for social distancing.

On the 14th, the last day of the Lunar New Year holiday, citizens who want to undergo Corona 19 testing are waiting with umbrellas at a temporary screening center installed at Amusmaru Stadium in Busanjin-gu, Busan. Reporter Song Bong-geun

In addition, five families in Busan No. 3065 (No. 3079 and No. 3080, No. 3088~3090) confirmed on the 16th were confirmed on this day. No. 3065 visited Yeongdo-gu’s parents’ house on the 12th with two family members living together, and all six family members attending the meeting, including No. 3065, were confirmed. The health authorities have confirmed that these families have violated the rules of banning private gatherings with more than five members and are reviewing the penalty (100,000 won per person).

Earlier, Busan No. 3038 was confirmed with four other family members after having a family meeting at the parents’ homes in Gyeongnam 2056 and Nam-gu, Busan. Six out of eight family members were confirmed by a family gathering on New Year’s Day.

However, seven employees of the insurance company No. 3038, one of the family members, were also confirmed. It is a chain infection. As a result of examining 101 employees of the insurance company and 35 contacts by the health authorities, there were no additional confirmed cases at the insurance company on the 17th, but five families of 7 employees who were confirmed the day before were additionally confirmed on the day. As a result, 22 people were confirmed with serial infection (n-th infection) at the funeral home, family members, and insurance companies related to Gyeongnam 2056. As a result of the epidemiological investigation, it was found that Gyeongnam No. 2056 had contacted Busan No. 2972 ​​at a funeral home in Busan on the 6th.

Amid the spread of a new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), medical staff are examining citizens who visited a screening clinic at a public health center in Daejeon on the 16th.

In addition, as a result of a total investigation of 24 employees and 40 residents at Songsan Nursing Home in Jung-gu, one employee and one resident were confirmed, and the cumulative confirmed number increased to 10 employees and 21 patients.

In Busan, a total of 151 people were confirmed in the last week. The average number of confirmed cases per day was 21.5, a slight increase from 17 last week. The infection reproductive index was 0.90, higher than the previous week’s 0.78. The number of cases of unknown infection route was 22, accounting for 14.6% of all confirmed cases, a slight increase from 13.4% in the previous week.

Lee So-ra, head of the Busan Citizens’ Prevention Promotion Team, said, “After the Lunar New Year holidays, there are many confirmed cases of family infections, and infections from local communities are introduced into homes, and a link is observed in which infected families are spreading back to local communities.” The level of social distancing has been lowered, but the quarantine rules must be more thoroughly followed.”

Busan = Reporter Hwang Sun-yoon [email protected]