14 Additional COVID-19 Cases in Gwangju Including 7 Before Quarantine Release...Total 1,278 Cases

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases testing positive before the end of self-quarantine is increasing in Gwangju.

According to Gwangju Metropolitan City on the 6th, as of 2 p.m. on the same day, 14 people tested positive in COVID-19 diagnostic tests and were newly registered as cases 1265 to 1278.

Among them, 7 people were confirmed positive in tests conducted before the end of self-quarantine.

Cases 1272 to 1274 and 1276 to 1278 were classified as related to Cheongsa Church and tested positive in tests before the end of self-quarantine while in isolation.

Case 1275 was also confirmed positive in a test before the end of self-quarantine and was classified as a close contact of case 941 (confirmed on December 22), an existing confirmed case whose infection route has not yet been identified, and was in self-quarantine.

Cases 1265 and 1266 were identified as contacts of case 1235. Case 1235 was confirmed positive the previous day, and the infection route is still under investigation.

Cases 1267, 1268, and 1270 were contacts of cases 1194, 1246, and 1244, respectively. The infection routes of all three existing confirmed cases remain unknown.

Cases 1269 and 1271 are newly confirmed cases with unclear infection routes.

In the Gwangju area, local COVID-19 infections are spreading mainly around Evergreen Silver House (nursing home) with 73 cases, Hyojeong Nursing Hospital with 83 cases, Cheongsa Church with 59 cases, and the Medical Sports Club with 23 cases.

The quarantine authorities have designated Hyojeong Nursing Hospital as a focused management medical institution until the 18th and decided to systematically manage the situation according to an inspection checklist.

A total of 58 confirmed patients have been transferred to eight regions outside Gwangju.

PCR tests are conducted every three days for all staff and residents; on this day, the second test is being conducted for 95 staff members and 2,390 patients.

Park Hyang, Director of the Welfare and Health Bureau of Gwangju City, said, “In the past two weeks, transmission among families has increased to the extent of 55 households and 200 people,” and urged, “Please refrain from family events, gatherings, and travel, and if you have fever or respiratory symptoms, get tested immediately at a screening clinic.”

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