[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Hye-seon] Bucheon City in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 2nd that two children of a couple infected by a daycare center staff member who contracted the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) have tested positive.


The two children, around 10 years old, are the children of a couple, A (46) and his wife B (50), residents of Bucheon, who were previously confirmed positive. It was investigated that they showed no symptoms of COVID-19.


The couple A was found to have traveled together by car with C (52, female), the 154th confirmed case in the region, to Asan, Chungnam on the 14th of last month. C is a staff member of a daycare center in Bucheon where previous confirmed cases occurred, and it is presumed that the infection was contracted there.



As a result, the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bucheon increased to 168 as of 6 p.m. on that day.


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