Confirmed COVID-19 Case in 'Andong Family' Who Contacted Piano Instructor in Seongnam... Another Family Transmission in Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk

Continued Secondary Infections from Cheongsong Family Gathering... Spread to Cheongdo Agricultural Processing Company and Further to Seongju, Gyeongsan, and Others

The photo was taken on the afternoon of November 18 at the screening clinic of the National Medical Center in Jung-gu, Seoul.
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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Park Dong-wook] A cluster infection at an agricultural product processing company in Cheongdo, where the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) spread from a family gathering in Cheongsong, Gyeongbuk, is spreading to the Gyeongsan area.

Along with this, three family members from Andong who visited the home of a piano instructor in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province (Seongnam case number 556), who was confirmed positive, were also infected. As of midnight on the 19th, eight cases of local infection were confirmed in Gyeongbuk.

First, in Gyeongsan, five people from two families (cases 677?679, 680?681) were notified of contact with confirmed cases and tested positive after undergoing testing.

Among these families, case number 677, who first showed cold symptoms, was identified to have had contact with a Cheongdo confirmed case (case 147, the younger sister from the Cheongsong family gathering). The remaining confirmed cases were found to be sequential infections from case 677, according to epidemiological investigations by health authorities.

In Andong, three people?a man in his 40s engaged in private education, his wife in her 30s, and their child?visited the home of the piano instructor in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, were classified as contacts of a confirmed case, underwent testing, and were confirmed positive. The piano instructor in Gyeonggi was confirmed positive along with her husband on the 17th in Seongnam.

As a result, as of midnight on that day, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the Gyeongbuk area increased by eight from the previous day to 1,597. The cumulative confirmed cases in Gyeongsan and Andong are 681 and 58, respectively.

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