'COVID-19 Resurgence Concerns' Daegu City Reports 9 Confirmed Cases at Apartment Complex Gamjatang Restaurant

12 New Confirmed Cases on the 15th... Total Confirmed Cases Reach 8,503 as of Midnight on the 16th

On the 15th, toads were moving around Mangwolji near Uksudong, Suseong-gu, Daegu, the largest toad spawning site in the country. With several days of warm weather, adult toads began descending from nearby Uksugol to Mangwolji for spawning starting late the previous evening.
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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Park Dong-wook] There are concerns about a new type of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) chain infection linked to a restaurant near an apartment complex in downtown Daegu.

According to Daegu City on the 16th, as of midnight, the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Daegu area was 8,503, an increase of 12 from the previous day. By residence, there were 8 in Dong-gu, 3 in Suseong-gu, and 1 in Dalseong-gun.

Among the 12 additional confirmed cases, 9 are related to a Gamjatang restaurant located in the middle of an apartment complex in Sinseo-dong, Dong-gu. The quarantine authorities identified a chain infection centered around this restaurant while tracing contacts of a confirmed case with an unknown infection route on the 14th.

Among the 10 restaurant workers, 8 were consecutively infected, and there was also one n-th generation infection. Daegu City sent text messages advising visitors to this restaurant from the 29th of last month to the past 14 days to undergo COVID-19 diagnostic testing.

The remaining 2 cases were contacts of confirmed cases from Jeju Island, and another case tested positive after arriving from Poland and undergoing a diagnostic test at the Dongdaegu Station screening clinic.

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