Daegu Medical Student and 2 Overseas Arrivals Test Positive for COVID-19... Total Cases Reach 6,882

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Park Dong-wook] Two new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were identified in Daegu within a single day.

According to Daegu City on the 30th, one third-year medical student at Keimyung University and one person in their 20s who arrived from overseas tested positive the previous day.

The medical student was detected with a fever by a thermal camera while trying to enter Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital in Dalseo-gu, Daegu on the 28th for clinical practice, and tested positive for COVID-19 after undergoing testing. It was confirmed that this student did not enter any hospital wards.

Daegu City explained that among 67 individuals who had possible contact within the hospital and medical school where the confirmed case occurred, 47 tested negative and 20 tests are still in progress.

The other confirmed case, a person in their 20s, arrived at Incheon Airport from the United States on the 26th and was tested at the Dongdaegu Station walk-through testing site but was quarantined at home as the results were not yet available. Later, a health center staff member visited their home and conducted a test which came back positive.

With two additional confirmed cases, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Daegu as of midnight that day rose to 6,882. The number of recovered patients increased to 6,692 (recovery rate 97.2%) as 18 patients were discharged the previous day. The death toll remained at 180 (2.6%) as of the previous day.

In the Daegu area, the weekly trend of confirmed cases shows 0 on the 24th (midnight basis), 1 on the 25th, 1 on the 26th, 3 on the 27th, 2 on the 28th, 0 on the 29th, and 2 on the 30th.

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