Bundang Jesaeng Hospital's First Confirmed Patient Contacted Local Clinic Director Infected
[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heung-soon] One additional confirmed case of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has been reported in Seongnam City, Gyeonggi Province. This patient is the director of a local internal medicine clinic in the area visited by the first confirmed patient of Bundang Jesaeng Hospital, where a cluster infection of 14 people occurred.
According to Seongnam City, the director of an internal medicine clinic in Yatap-dong, Bundang-gu (born in 1955, male) tested positive at 10:03 PM on the 9th and was transferred to Seongnam Medical Center at 1 AM the same day.
This patient resides in Imae-dong, Bundang-gu, and visited the internal medicine clinic on the 2nd after the first confirmed patient of Bundang Jesaeng Hospital, a 76-year-old male, was discharged and stayed at home. A nursing assistant at this internal medicine clinic also tested positive at 9:17 PM on the 6th.
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As of 7 AM on the same day, the total number of confirmed cases in Seongnam City is 18, of which 10 reside in Seongnam and the remaining 8 live in other regions. Seongnam City announced that it plans to conduct an epidemiological investigation jointly with epidemiologists from Gyeonggi Province.
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