Two Additional Ulsan Hyundai Heavy Industries Workers Confirmed COVID-19 Positive, 300 Employees Prohibited from Coming to Work

One Child of Confirmed Case Also Tested Positive on the 6th

Hyundai Heavy Industries Ulsan Plant. [Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Three additional people, including one child of a COVID-19 confirmed case and two colleagues working at Hyundai Heavy Industries Ulsan Plant, have been infected. The total number of infections related to Hyundai Heavy Industries Ulsan Plant reached four as of the 8th.

According to Ulsan City on the 8th, two workers at the company's Ulsan plant tested positive. They are case number 121 (58-year-old male, Buk-gu, Ulsan) and case number 122 (57-year-old male, Dong-gu, Ulsan).

They are close contacts who worked in the same space as case number 115 (45-year-old male, Buk-gu, Ulsan), who tested positive for COVID-19 on the 6th.

The child of case number 115 was also confirmed as case number 120 (9-year-old male, Buk-gu, Ulsan).

On the 7th, Hyundai Heavy Industries prohibited about 500 employees who worked in the same building as case number 115 from coming to work for one day. After additional confirmed cases occurred on that day, the company also banned about 300 employees working on the same floor from coming to work on the 8th.

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