Middle School Student in Boryeong Tests Positive for COVID-19... Investigating Link to Cluster Infection at High School

A screening clinic set up in a public parking lot in Buk-gu, Gwangju./Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Joo-hee] On the 18th, one middle school student in Boryeong, Chungnam, was confirmed positive for the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

Patient A, the 20th confirmed case in Boryeong, is a second-year student at a middle school in Boryeong City, Chungnam, and is known to attend the same school as Patient B (first-year), the first confirmed case in Boryeong.

Patient A showed suspected COVID-19 symptoms such as headache and fever on the afternoon of the 17th and was tested at Boryeong Asan Hospital.

The school Patient A attends has been conducting online classes for all students since the 22nd of last month, after Patient B was confirmed positive for COVID-19.

Health authorities stated that they are investigating whether Patient A, confirmed positive on this day, is connected to a high school in Boryeong City where a recent cluster infection occurred.

At this high school, after Patient C (Boryeong 14th), a first-year student, was confirmed positive on the 16th, five others were subsequently confirmed positive: C’s homeroom teacher (Boryeong 15th), the school bus driver (Boryeong 16th), a classmate (Boryeong 17th), and a teacher couple (Boryeong 18th and 19th).

It has not yet been determined who was infected first or through which route among them.

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