Gunpo Saeanyak Church Congregant Additional Confirmed Cases... Total 20 Infected Related to Pastor Meeting (Update)

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[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Midam] Among a family of five, including a pastor couple from a church in Gunpo, Gyeonggi Province, who traveled to Jeju, four members tested positive for COVID-19, and the grandmother who went to care for her grandson?left alone at the pastor's son's house?also tested positive.

On the 8th, Gunpo City announced that a 70-year-old woman, Ms. A, residing in Gunpo 1-dong, tested positive for COVID-19. Ms. A is the mother of the pastor of Sae-eonyak Church (patient number 49), who tested positive after traveling to Jeju with 12 pastors from churches in Anyang and Gunpo from the 25th to 27th of last month, and she is also a member of this church.

Following the pastor's wife (patient number 38) testing positive on the 30th of last month, their two children attending Yangjeong Elementary School (patients 44 and 45) tested positive on the 1st, and the pastor himself tested positive on the 7th. Among the pastor's family of five, four tested positive, leaving only their first-grade elementary school child uninfected.

After her son also tested positive, Ms. A went to her son's house on the 7th to care for her first-grade grandson, who was the only one not infected and left alone at home, and after undergoing a COVID-19 test, she was confirmed positive on the 8th.

With Ms. A's confirmation, the total number of COVID-19 cases related to Sae-eonyak Church has increased to six, including the pastor couple, their children, and one church member.

Thus, the total number of confirmed cases related to the pastors' meeting in the Anyang and Gunpo areas has reached 20 so far (5 in Anyang, 13 in Gunpo, 1 in Siheung, and 1 in Geumcheon, Seoul).

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