Additional Family Member Confirmed in Guri Galmae-dong...Total Now 7 (Update)

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On the morning of the 26th, as the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spreads in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, and Incheon areas, people are lined up waiting for tests at the screening clinic of Bucheon City Public Health Center in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Suwan] Two additional family members in Galmae-dong, Guri-si, Gyeonggi Province, tested positive for the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) on the morning of the 27th.

According to Guri City, the newly infected individuals, A (40, female) and B (36, male), are the brother-in-law and sister-in-law of C (38), who was confirmed positive at Seoul Medical Center on the 26th.

Previously, four people including C's wife (39), their elementary school daughter (9), father-in-law (72), and mother-in-law (65) tested positive for COVID-19 on the 16th.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the family to seven. The 6-year-old child of C and his wife, who lived in the same house, tested negative.

C was confirmed to have shown symptoms such as fever starting from the 21st, and after going to work on the 25th, his symptoms worsened, leading him to get tested at Seoul Medical Center where he was diagnosed positive.

Health authorities immediately placed C's seven family members under self-quarantine and conducted diagnostic tests. During this process, four others including his wife also tested positive and were transferred to Anseong Hospital of Gyeonggi Medical Center.

The sister-in-law and brother-in-law were tested and confirmed positive in Seoul, where they work, and were moved to the same hospital.

They had been living together at C's house since the end of last month. Although C's in-laws live separately, due to family circumstances, they had been staying at C's house since the end of last month.

Health authorities are conducting epidemiological investigations to trace their movements and infection routes. Additionally, the daycare center attended by C and his wife's child was closed and disinfected.

Meanwhile, the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education postponed in-person classes for kindergartens, elementary, middle, and high schools in the Galmae district of Guri-si, except for 12th-grade students, on the same day.

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