Video of Shincheonji Church Containing 'Patient 31 Attending Worship' Secured

Daegu City Secures 38 Additional Videos of Shincheonji Church Worship Halls, 'Super-Spreader Source'
Including Worships Attended by Patient 31 on February 9 and 16

On the afternoon of the 19th, the Shincheonji Daegu Church in Daemyeong-dong, Nam-gu, Daegu. The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters announced that patient number 31, the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Daegu, recently visited this church to pray.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] Daegu City recently secured additional internal church videos during an on-site investigation of the Shincheonji Daegu Church.

According to Daegu City on the 18th, in addition to the 7th to 9th floor closed-circuit (CC) TV footage obtained during the first administrative investigation on the 12th, 38 more videos were secured. The videos are known to contain scenes of worship inside the church from January 1st to the 16th of last month. They include footage of the worship services on the 9th and 16th of last month, which the 31st confirmed case, known as the initial transmitter within the church, attended at the Shincheonji Daegu Church.

Daegu City believes these videos will help estimate the COVID-19 infection route and is sharing them with the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for analysis.

After the 31st confirmed case was identified on the 18th of last month, the closed-circuit (CC) TV footage inside the church secured by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was confirmed to have captured only areas outside the sanctuary and the elevator, not the interior of the sanctuary.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reviewed footage taken during the worship times on the 9th and 16th of last month from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., when the 31st confirmed case attended, but did not find any images of the sanctuary interior.

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