COVID-19 Student Case Confirmed at Changwon Sinwol High School, Gyeongnam... Education Authorities on Alert

Students are lining up at an on-campus screening clinic to get tested at a high school in Changwon, Gyeongnam, where a confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported on the 28th. (Photo by Yonhap News)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Ju Cheol-in] A student confirmed with the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has been reported at Changwon Sinwol High School in Gyeongnam, putting the education authorities on alert.

Park Jong-hoon, Superintendent of Gyeongnam Provincial Office of Education, announced at the provincial education office on the 28th, "This morning, a first-year female student at Changwon Sinwol High School (Gyeongnam case number 222) was confirmed positive."

The school reopened on the 25th, with first and third-year students attending school on the 25th and 26th respectively. Second-year students attended on the 27th. The confirmed student is a first-year who attended school on the 18th, 25th, and 26th. Currently, the student has been transferred to Masan Medical Center along with her mother and older brother.

Sinwol High School, where the confirmed case occurred, has switched to remote classes.

Superintendent Park stated, "A screening clinic has been set up at the school, and mass testing is underway for students and staff," adding, "Depending on the test results, additional measures are being prepared, and we are also checking whether there are similar cases in other schools."

Since it was confirmed that the infected student attended a private academy, epidemiological investigations and disinfection are also in progress.

At a nearby middle school to Sinwol High School, about half of the 110 second-year students who attended school on the 28th were found to have overlapping movement paths with the academy attended by the confirmed case, leading the school principal to allow early dismissal.

Meanwhile, the Gyeongnam Private Academy Association decided to close all academies in Changwon's Seongsan-gu and Uichang-gu districts from today until the 30th.

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