About 50 Seongju-gun Officials Dine at Same Hotel as 31st COVID-19 Patient
[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Ju Cheol-in] It has been confirmed that public officials in Seongju-gun, Gyeongbuk, dined at the same hotel restaurant as the 31st patient of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), putting Seongju-gun on high alert.
According to Seongju-gun on the 18th, about 50 fellow public officials attended the wedding of public official A at the Queen Bell Hotel in Dong-gu, Daegu, at around 11:30 a.m. on the 15th, and it was confirmed that they dined in the same space as the 31st patient.
The 31st patient reportedly had lunch with an acquaintance at the Queen Bell Hotel buffet restaurant around the same time on the same day, according to Daegu city.
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The Seongju-gun Public Health Center stated, "We have not yet received confirmation of close contacts from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, so we are only identifying the list of attendees at the wedding hall," adding, "If classified as close contacts, we plan to implement self-quarantine measures."
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