[Breaking] Second Infection at Busan Port... Acquaintance of Confirmed Case from Repair Company Tests Positive

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Ga-yeon] Amid a large number of confirmed cases among employees of a Busan port ship repair company who boarded a Russian vessel for work, secondary local infections have also occurred.

According to Busan city health authorities on the 26th, an acquaintance classified as a close contact of patient number 158, an employee of the ship repair company, tested positive.

As a result, the total number of confirmed cases among those who boarded the Russian vessel Petrwon, which had a cluster infection of 32 crew members, or among ship repair company employees or contacts infected through secondary transmission, has increased to nine (eight Koreans and one foreign worker).

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