Deputy Director of Bucheon Daycare Infected After Director Tests Positive... Daughter at Incheon Sungui Elementary Also Positive

by Park Haesook

Published 17 Jun.2020 10:25(KST)

COVID-19 Screening Clinic [Asia Economy Photo]

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] Starting with a confirmed case of a daycare center director in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, the deputy director of the same daycare center and her elementary school daughter were subsequently diagnosed positive for COVID-19.

Incheon City announced on the 17th that A (39, female), the deputy director of a daycare center at a cultural center in Sang-dong, Bucheon, and her daughter B (7), a first grader at Sungui Elementary School in Michuhol-gu, Incheon, tested positive for COVID-19.

A showed symptoms of phlegm and sore throat on the 12th, and after the daycare center director C (40, female), who works at the same daycare, was confirmed positive on the 16th, A was tested and found positive for COVID-19.

C was infected by her mother residing in Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul, so if C is the initial transmitter within the daycare center, A is considered a third-generation infection, and B is presumed to be a fourth-generation infection case.

A attended the daycare center on the 10th to 12th and the 15th, and after symptoms appeared, she visited clinics in Sungui-dong and Hakik-dong, Michuhol-gu, on the 13th and 14th, according to investigations.

Health authorities have set up a walk-through screening clinic on the playground of Sungui Elementary School, where B is enrolled, and are testing a total of 438 people including faculty and students. This includes children from the attached kindergarten.

Epidemiological investigations revealed that B showed suspected symptoms such as sore throat on the 12th, like her mother, and attended school on the 15th. On the 13th, B went hiking in another area by family car and visited her grandmother’s house in Sungui-dong for three days until the 15th.