One Additional COVID-19 Case in Their 60s Confirmed in Gayang-dong, Daejeon...Contact with Infected Person at Construction Site

Citizens are lining up to receive COVID-19 diagnostic tests at public health centers in Daejeon. Provided by Daejeon City

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] One new case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Daejeon. The total number of confirmed cases in the region is now 164.

According to Daejeon City on the 15th, a man in his 60s living in Gayang-dong, Dong-gu, Daejeon (#164) tested positive for COVID-19 on that day.

The city confirmed that this confirmed patient recently had contact with patient #161 at a construction site in Hakha-dong, Yuseong-gu.

Since the first confirmed case #142 appeared at the local construction site on the 7th, the number of confirmed cases has increased to five.

Patient #142 is a man in his 40s working as the site manager at the construction site. A man in his 50s (#157, a freight transportation company employee) who had contact with this patient tested positive on the 10th, followed by a man in his 30s (#159), a colleague of patient #157, who tested positive on the 11th.

Additionally, on the 14th, a man in his 60s who worked at the construction site where patient #142 is employed was added to the list of confirmed cases. Including patient #164, the number of confirmed cases has increased to five since patient #142 was first identified on the 7th.

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