Office worker who visited 'Itaewon Club'... 7 colleagues infected with COVID-19 in cluster

A notice of 'Gathering Ban Order' posted at a club in Itaewon. Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Kim Yeon-ju] Seven people have been sequentially infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at a company in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, where an office worker who visited an Itaewon club works.

On the 11th, Seoul City and each autonomous district announced that a 28-year-old man working at Company A in Gangnam-gu (Jungnang-gu patient No. 17) was confirmed positive on the 10th, just one day after being tested at a screening clinic in Jung-gu.

On the same day, a male colleague in his 30s was also confirmed positive as Suwon patient No. 51 in Gyeonggi Province.

The next day, on the 11th, two men in their 30s (Dongjak-gu patient No. 36, Gangseo-gu patient No. 29) and three women in their 20s (Gangseo-gu patient No. 30, Suwon patient No. 52 in Gyeonggi, Yongin patient No. 70) working at the same company were additionally confirmed positive.

Gangnam-gu announced that disinfection was carried out at Company A's office, and the basic local governments where the patients reside reportedly transferred them to isolation treatment beds and disinfected places along their movement paths, including their homes.

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