Busan·Ulsan,’super emergency’ of coronavirus group infection… 13 confirmed at Busan Joint Fish Market
Call center, sauna etc. one after another
Reporter Baeksang Kim [email protected], Reporter Seunghyuk Kwon [email protected]
Input: 2021-03-09 19:25:16Revision: 2021-03-09 19:36:33Published: 2021-03-09 19:41:29 (p. 01)
On the 9th, the Busan Joint Fish Market, the nation’s largest seafood counterfeiter, is showing a sluggish appearance due to the suspension of work due to the occurrence of a series of corona19 confirmed cases. Since 300 or more workers are self-contained, it is expected that the violation will not proceed normally for a while. Reporter Kim Kyung-hyun view@
Group infections are erupting one after another in joint facilities in Busan and Ulsan, such as fish markets, call centers, and spas. Some point out that the quarantine consciousness has not been loosened since vaccination began at the end of last month.
As of the afternoon of the 9th, the number of new confirmed cases increased by 14, and the cumulative number of patients was 3352. Twelve of the added confirmed cases were related to group infection in the workplace. In the Busan Joint Fish Market, where 6 confirmed cases were confirmed, the number of cumulative confirmed cases was 13 (10 members of the anti-shipment union, 3 contacts). The additional confirmed cases were five fellow members who had contacted a member of the fishery branch of the Hangun Union, who had previously been confirmed, and two members of their families. In addition, five confirmed patients were added at a call center in Busan, where the confirmed person came out on the 24th of last month. The quarantine authorities inspected all the call center staff after the first confirmed cases came out, and all of them were negative. However, some of the close contacts who were in self-containment were confirmed during the inspection before the release of quarantine that day.
In Ulsan, there were 20 new confirmed cases a day on the 9th. Among them, 18 confirmed cases related to the Buk-gu Hero Spa, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases increased to 30 after the first confirmed cases related to this sauna on the 7th. In particular, the city of Ulsan believes that this group infection is highly related to the group infection at the Busan funeral home, which has been confirmed as a mutant virus infection from the UK. For this reason, it is possible that not only 41 accumulated confirmed cases in Ulsan related to the Busan funeral home, but also 71 persons including 30 related to saunas. Reporters Baeksang Kim and Seunghyuk Kwon k103@