Gyeongju Good Morning Hospital and Neulpureun Nursing Hospital 'Cohort Quarantine'... Consecutive Confirmed Cases During Chuseok Holiday

Neulpureun Nursing Hospital 70s Staff 'Confirmed'... Infection Route Unclear
40s Woman with Cold Symptoms Hospitalized at Good Morning Hospital, Then 'Confirmed'

Mayor Jun Nak-yeong of Gyeongju City giving a video briefing regarding the confirmed cases that have been occurring continuously.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] Good Morning Hospital and Neulpureun Nursing Hospital in Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk, where confirmed cases occurred during the Chuseok holiday, have been placed under cohort (same group) quarantine by health authorities.

According to Gyeongju City on the 2nd, the Gyeongbuk Infectious Disease Support Group held an on-site meeting in Gyeongju on the previous day (1st) and decided to implement a two-week cohort quarantine for Good Morning Hospital until the 12th and Neulpureun Nursing Hospital until the 13th, respectively.

On Chuseok day, the 1st, a nursing assistant in her 70s at Neulpureun Nursing Hospital in Gyeongju, who showed symptoms such as fever and chills, tested positive and was labeled as the 95th confirmed case in the Gyeongju area. It was found that this nursing assistant had felt abnormal symptoms since the 22nd, received cold medicine at a general hospital, and continued to work normally until the 29th.

Also, on September 30, a woman in her 40s residing in Geoncheon-eup was classified as a contact of a confirmed case at the health center screening clinic on the 29th of last month and tested positive (Gyeongju 94th case). This woman had been visiting pharmacies and hospitals for cold symptoms since the 16th and was admitted to Good Morning Hospital from the 24th to the 28th before being discharged.

Neulpureun Nursing Hospital, where the 95th confirmed case works, has 524 beds and 336 patients admitted. There are 178 staff members. The final test results for these patients and staff are expected to be released on the 2nd.

Good Morning Hospital, where the 94th confirmed case was admitted, has 130 beds and 56 patients admitted. There are 108 staff members. The test results for a total of 43 people, including 14 nurses, 22 patients, and 7 other related personnel who had contact with the confirmed case or are at risk of infection, are also expected to be announced collectively on the 2nd.

Mayor Joo Nak-young appealed through an emergency video briefing on the 1st, saying, "To prevent the Chuseok holiday from becoming a catalyst for the resurgence of COVID-19, please refer to the confirmed patients' movement paths posted on the homepage and ensure that citizens who visited the same places at the same times or have symptoms such as fever and are concerned about infection get tested at the health center screening clinics."

Meanwhile, in Gyeongju, similar to Pohang, confirmed cases have been identified almost daily for 20 days since the confirmed case of an attendee at the Chilgok Wild Ginseng (Jangnoesam) business briefing on the 11th of last month. As of midnight on the 2nd, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Gyeongju is 95 (94 according to the Disease Control and Prevention Agency's calculation), and Pohang recorded 3 more cases the previous day, totaling 103.

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