Daejeon Reports 3 Additional COVID-19 Cases, Including 1 Worker at Wolpyeong Station on Urban Railway (Update 2)

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Three new confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Daejeon. This brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Daejeon to 13.

According to Daejeon city on the 28th, the additional confirmed cases include a man in his 40s working at Wolpyeong Station on Daejeon Metro Line 1, a woman in her 40s residing in Daedeok-gu (office worker), and a woman in her 20s residing in Seo-gu (graduate student).

The city plans to hold a briefing at 10:30 a.m. that day to disclose investigation details such as the confirmed patients' movement routes.

Meanwhile, the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Daejeon (a 23-year-old woman) was reported on the 22nd. The first confirmed patient had visited Daegu on the 13th and was diagnosed positive while staying at a friend’s house in Dong-gu, Daejeon on the 18th. It is reported that her actual residence is Seoul.

On the 23rd, a couple in their 60s living in Yuseong-gu tested positive for COVID-19, and on the 26th, three more cases were added: a nurse in her 40s working at Seongse Hospital in Bongmyeong-dong, Yuseong-gu; a researcher aged 33 working at the Korea Forest Service Research Institute in Dunsan-dong, Seo-gu; and a station staff member in her 30s working at Wolpyeong Station on Metro Line 1.

Additionally, on the 27th, the number of confirmed cases increased to 10 as one man in his 70s being treated at Eulji University Hospital in Seo-gu (transferred from Gongju, Chungnam), two men in their 30s who are colleagues of the previously confirmed researcher at the Korea Forest Service, and one station staff member working at Wolpyeong Station were newly confirmed.

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