23rd Confirmed Case (Chinese Woman) Visited Urban Guesthouse in Seodaemun-gu on February 2nd

A Chinese Woman in Her 50s Entering for Tourism and Visiting Her Children

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] It has been confirmed that the 23rd confirmed case of the novel coronavirus infection stayed at an urban-type lodging facility in Seodaemun-gu from the 2nd of this month.

On the morning of the 6th, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) revealed that the patient is a 58-year-old Chinese woman who entered South Korea for tourism and to visit her child studying abroad at a university in Chungnam Province.

Seoul City and the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, while conducting a tracking investigation of foreigners who entered from Wuhan and whose whereabouts were unknown, identified the lodging facility on the evening of the 5th and requested an on-site investigation from the Seodaemun-gu Public Health Center.

Accordingly, staff from the Seodaemun-gu Public Health Center visited the accommodation carrying self-quarantine notices, guidance documents, self-quarantine supplies, thermometers, and specimen collection tools.

The health center staff prepared epidemiological investigation forms and collected specimens from all eight Chinese individuals present, including the 23rd confirmed patient.

As a result of the tests, one person (the 23rd confirmed patient) was confirmed positive and was admitted to a nationally designated isolation ward on the morning of the 6th. The remaining seven individuals all tested negative and are currently under self-quarantine at the urban-type lodging facility where they had been staying.

The Seodaemun-gu Public Health Center conducted extensive disinfection and sterilization of the facility visited by the confirmed patient and the surrounding area.

Currently, the KCDC is conducting an epidemiological investigation into the movements of the 23rd confirmed patient since entering South Korea on January 23rd for tourism purposes.

At an emergency policy meeting held on the morning of the 6th, Moon Seok-jin, Mayor of Seodaemun-gu, instructed, “We will provide accurate information so that citizens around the urban-type lodging facility where the 23rd confirmed patient stayed do not feel anxious, and we will thoroughly carry out disinfection work.”

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