Daegu, Teen Confirmed COVID-19 Positive After Contact with Sarangui Church Member... 44th Infection Related to This Church

Daegu Reports 4 Positive Cases Including 1 Imported Case on 11th
Cumulative Confirmed Cases Reach 7,094 as of Midnight on 12th
Gyeongbuk Confirms 2 Cases Among Participants of Chilgok Jangnoesam Business Briefing

The scene of Daegu Sarang Church (Hyo-mok-dong, Dong-gu), where a large number of COVID-19 confirmed cases emerged from the end of August.
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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongwook Park] As of midnight on the 12th, 4 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported in Daegu.

According to Daegu City, the new confirmed cases include 3 local infections: a teenage female from Suseong-gu, a man in his 40s from Jung-gu, and a man in his 40s from Seoul who visited Buk-gu, as well as a teenage male who entered the country from India.

The teenage female from Suseong-gu was classified as a contact of a member of Sarangui Church in Dong-gu and tested positive at the time of release from self-quarantine. This brings the total number of confirmed cases related to Sarangui Church to 44.

The man in his 40s from Jung-gu was confirmed positive after showing symptoms such as fever and sore throat and undergoing testing. The man in his 40s living in Seocho-gu, Seoul, who had come down to his family home in Buk-gu, Daegu, tested positive after experiencing muscle pain and loss of smell.

As an imported case, the teenage male who entered from India tested positive at the Dongdaegu Station walk-through test site. Accordingly, as of midnight on the 12th, the cumulative confirmed cases in Daegu stand at 7,094, with 187 deaths and 6,944 recoveries (97.8%).

In Gyeongbuk, 2 new cases were reported the previous day, bringing the total confirmed cases to 1,443, deaths to 58, and recoveries to 1,345 (93%) as of midnight today. A woman in her 50s residing in Gyeongju and a man in his 60s from Pohang were identified as attendees of a Jangnoesam business briefing held in Chilgok on the 2nd, causing health authorities to be deeply concerned about the potential spread of a cluster infection.

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