At least 14 COVID-19 cases related to Itaewon clubber
- 4 years ago
'용인 66번' 관련 확진 벌써 15명 "동선 겹치면 외출말고 집에"
Health authorities in South Korea are sounding alarm over a potential emergence of a cluster infection after a clubber who had hopped around five clubs in Seoul over the holiday weekend are found to have spread COVID-19 to more than a dozen others.
The nation which had managed to get new daily infections close to zero for the past week is back on high alert.
Hong Yoo starts us off.
Through contact tracing for the 29-year-old man who tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday,... the health authorities have confirmed a total of 14 other patients.
One of those was the man's acquaintance, one was a work colleague, and the other 12 were people the man came into contact with in Seoul's Itaewon neighborhood last Friday night and Saturday morning.
The man visited five different clubs in Itaewon that Friday night, and those clubs were visited by more than one-thousand-five-hundred people.
The government is having trouble tracking down all these people because many of them are foreigners and it is concerned that there could be more cases coming from this transmission.
"We have announced the time the patient visited clubs King, Trunk, and Queen in the early hours of May 2nd. We ask those that could have been at those locations at that time to please stay home and refrain from going to work or going outside."
Health authorities also advise people who were out in Itaewon during those hours and who are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 to get tested for the virus.
The first patient in this local transmission was not wearing a mask inside clubs and the time of his visit comes when his virus transmission level was high.
The government emphasized that this transmission at entertainment facilities is a case that alerts people about what can happen if they do not stick to disease prevention measures.
The government has also put an administrative order banning nightclubs across the country from opening for business for one month starting from 8 PM Friday.
Hong Yoo, Arirang News.
Health authorities in South Korea are sounding alarm over a potential emergence of a cluster infection after a clubber who had hopped around five clubs in Seoul over the holiday weekend are found to have spread COVID-19 to more than a dozen others.
The nation which had managed to get new daily infections close to zero for the past week is back on high alert.
Hong Yoo starts us off.
Through contact tracing for the 29-year-old man who tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday,... the health authorities have confirmed a total of 14 other patients.
One of those was the man's acquaintance, one was a work colleague, and the other 12 were people the man came into contact with in Seoul's Itaewon neighborhood last Friday night and Saturday morning.
The man visited five different clubs in Itaewon that Friday night, and those clubs were visited by more than one-thousand-five-hundred people.
The government is having trouble tracking down all these people because many of them are foreigners and it is concerned that there could be more cases coming from this transmission.
"We have announced the time the patient visited clubs King, Trunk, and Queen in the early hours of May 2nd. We ask those that could have been at those locations at that time to please stay home and refrain from going to work or going outside."
Health authorities also advise people who were out in Itaewon during those hours and who are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 to get tested for the virus.
The first patient in this local transmission was not wearing a mask inside clubs and the time of his visit comes when his virus transmission level was high.
The government emphasized that this transmission at entertainment facilities is a case that alerts people about what can happen if they do not stick to disease prevention measures.
The government has also put an administrative order banning nightclubs across the country from opening for business for one month starting from 8 PM Friday.
Hong Yoo, Arirang News.