Ulsan Hyundai Heavy Industries Shower Room Attendant Confirmed Positive... 500 Employees and Partners Halt Commuting

Ulsan City, COVID-19 Case Confirmed in One Building Among 50 Shower Facilities, Disinfection Completed

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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] A shower facility manager at Ulsan Hyundai Heavy Industries tested positive for COVID-19, leading to over 500 employees and subcontractor staff working in the building being instructed to stop coming to work on the 1st and remain on standby at home.

Ulsan city health authorities and Hyundai Heavy Industries launched an emergency disinfection operation after the shower facility manager in one of the buildings at the Ulsan headquarters tested positive.

According to Ulsan city, a man in his 60s living in Dong-gu, identified as Mr. A, was classified as a COVID-19 confirmed case transmitted at a family gathering in Chuncheon on the 20th-21st of last month.

Mr. A is an employee of a service company managing one of the approximately 50 shower facilities within Hyundai Heavy Industries. The building housing the shower facility employs about 120 regular Hyundai Heavy Industries employees and around 380 subcontractor staff, totaling about 500 people.

Hyundai Heavy Industries instructed all these personnel not to come to work for the day and to remain on standby at home.

They are also conducting an epidemiological investigation to identify employees who used the shower room. All employees who were contacts of the confirmed case or were in the same locations will undergo COVID-19 diagnostic testing.

Earlier in September, Hyundai Heavy Industries experienced a cluster infection centered around employees and their families, leading to diagnostic testing of approximately 2,400 workers who had contact with the infected individuals.

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