68 Additional Incheon Residents Working at Guro-gu Call Center Confirmed... 49 Negative

53 Shincheonji Followers Confirmed Among Workers at Incheon Nursing Hospitals and Facilities

A COVID-19 cluster infection occurred at a call center on the 11th floor of the Korea Building in Sindorim-dong. On the 10th, quarantine officials from Guro-gu operated a screening clinic for residents in front of the Korea Building in Guro-gu, Seoul. Photo by Kang Jin-hyung aymsdream@

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] Incheon City announced on the 11th that it has additionally secured the list of 68 Incheon residents among the employees of the call center in Guro-gu, Seoul, where a cluster infection of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) occurred, and is conducting specimen tests.

The city identified that call centers were located not only on the 11th floor, where the cluster infection occurred at Ace Insurance call center, but also on the 7th to 9th floors, and requested cooperation from Seoul City to additionally secure the list of 68 Incheon residents.

Among them, 49 tested negative, and the specimen tests for the remaining 19 are ongoing.

So far, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases related to the Guro-gu call center in the Incheon area totals 15, including 13 call center workers and 2 contacts. The confirmed cases are distributed as 4 each in Michuhol-gu and Bupyeong-gu, 2 in Seo-gu, 2 in Gyeyang-gu, 2 in Yeonsu-gu, and 1 in Namdong-gu.

The city is also conducting specimen tests on 127 people who had contact with these confirmed cases. As of the morning of the day, 121 tested negative, and specimen tests for the remaining 6 are still in progress.

Additionally, to prevent similar cases like the Guro-gu call center cluster infection, the city plans to actively respond by identifying the status of private call centers and insurance-related stores in the region and strengthening quarantine measures.

At a meeting held the previous day, Mayor Park Namchun of Incheon, Mayor Park Wonsoon of Seoul, and Kim Heegyeom, the First Deputy Governor of Gyeonggi Province, agreed on joint metropolitan area response efforts, including rapid sharing of epidemiological investigation information and private call center status conducted by each city and province, as the residences of the call center employees are spread across the metropolitan area and the movement paths of confirmed patients are expected to extend throughout the metropolitan area.

Meanwhile, Incheon City received a list of 53 Shincheonji Church members working at nursing hospitals and nursing facilities in Incheon from the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters and is conducting specimen tests.

Among the 53, 52 are included in the previously secured list of 11,842 Shincheonji Church members and trainees in Incheon, and the remaining one was confirmed to reside in Naju-si, Jeollanam-do.

Of these, 5 have tested negative from specimen tests, and the specimen tests for the remaining 47 are ongoing.

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