[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Ga-yeon] Icheon City, Gyeonggi Province, announced on the 1st that two additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) have occurred.


According to Icheon City, two people (Icheon City cases 25 and 26), including an infant living with the confirmed mother at the residential treatment center and a family member of the confirmed patient, were newly diagnosed with COVID-19.


The 80-year-old Icheon City case 25 is the mother of Icheon City case 21, who had contact with a confirmed patient in Gangdong-gu. She had been in quarantine since the 24th of last month and was confirmed positive without any additional contacts or movement paths.


The Icheon City case 26, a child under 10 years old, was admitted to the Icheon Residential Treatment Center (Gyeonggi-do Education and Training Institute) on the 27th of last month with her mother, Pyeongtaek City case 73, and was confirmed infected while staying there.



It is known that among the five family members of Icheon City case 26, three were confirmed positive, and she was admitted to the residential treatment center together with her mother.


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