Four Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Among Pharmacist Families and Pharmacy Staff in Yecheon, Gyeongbuk

Pharmacist Couple in Their 50s Confirmed Positive After Jeju Island Trip... Son and Employee Infected
As of Midnight on the 30th, Cumulative Confirmed Cases in Gyeongbuk Reach 1,411... Husband Not Included

The walking-through screening clinic installed in the parking lot of Gimcheon City Council, Gyeongbuk, on August 27.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Park Dong-wook] In Yecheon-gun, Gyeongbuk, four residents, including a pharmacist couple in their 50s, their son in his 20s, and a pharmacy employee in their 30s, have been confirmed as COVID-19 cases, raising alarms in the local community.

According to Gyeongbuk Province and Yecheon-gun on the 30th, a female pharmacist in her 50s living in Yecheon-eup, who traveled to Jeju Island with her husband from the 12th to the 16th, was confirmed positive after being tested at Yecheon Public Health Center on the 28th due to fever symptoms. Subsequently, her husband and their son in his 20s also tested positive following tests conducted after the mother's diagnosis.

Additionally, a pharmacy employee in their 30s working at the pharmacy run by the couple in their 50s was confirmed positive after testing at Yecheon Public Health Center. It was found that this employee had visited their sibling's house in Busan on the 23rd and 24th. The quarantine authorities conducted diagnostic tests on 35 customers who visited the pharmacy, and the results are expected to be released by the evening of the 30th.

As a result, as of 10 a.m. on the 30th, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the Gyeongbuk area has risen to 1,412. The cumulative confirmed cases in Yecheon stand at 48. The data announced by Gyeongbuk Province at midnight on the same day did not include the husband in his 50s among the confirmed cases.

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