Two Attendees at Daejeon Business Briefing Confirmed with COVID-19... All Briefing Participants Undergo Testing

Source=Yonhap News

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Two attendees of a corporate business briefing tested positive for COVID-19. It was confirmed that the infected individuals reside outside of Daejeon.

According to Daejeon City on the 27th, a woman in her 40s, Ms. A, and a man in his 50s, Mr. B, who attended a business briefing held at Woosong Arts Center in Dong-gu, Daejeon on the 23rd, tested positive for COVID-19.

Ms. A was confirmed to reside in Guro-gu, Seoul, and Mr. B in Yeonsu-gu, Incheon.

The city secured CCTV footage from the business briefing venue visited by the confirmed cases to identify their movement paths and contacts within the region, and after closing the building, completed disinfection. However, a full tracing of the confirmed cases’ movements and in-depth epidemiological investigations will be conducted by the health centers in their respective residential areas.

The city obtained the list of all 194 attendees of the business briefing and instructed residents of Daejeon to undergo diagnostic testing regardless of symptoms, while advising attendees from other regions to visit their local health centers for testing.

Lee Kang-hyuk, Director of the City’s Health and Welfare Bureau, emphasized, “As schools have recently reopened, we urge citizens who attended the briefing to voluntarily get tested as soon as possible to prevent the spread of infection within the community.”

He added, “We also ask everyone to strictly adhere to personal and group quarantine guidelines and social distancing measures in places where many people gather to ensure the safety of our citizens.”

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