3 Secondary Infections of 3 People Related to Gitturami Boiler Asan Factory in Daejeon and Sejong

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Three additional COVID-19 cases related to the Kiturami Boiler Asan Factory have been confirmed in Daejeon and Sejong.

According to Daejeon and Sejong cities on the 18th, a total of six people in Daejeon tested positive for COVID-19 the previous day, and two of them were identified as related to the Asan Factory.

The confirmed cases related to the Asan Factory are Daejeon 1164 (a person in their 60s living in Seo-gu) and Daejeon 1169 (a person in their 40s living in Seo-gu). Daejeon 1164 is the mother-in-law of an Asan Factory employee (Asan 323) and was diagnosed positive after receiving a preemptive test while asymptomatic.

Earlier in Daejeon, the wife (Daejeon 1160) of the Asan Factory employee (Asan 323) and their two teenage children (Daejeon 1161 and 1162) were infected with COVID-19. It was investigated that this family had gathered together during the Lunar New Year holiday.

Daejeon 1169 was confirmed to be an acquaintance of the wife of the Asan Factory employee.

In Sejong, a person in their 40s (Sejong 213) who worked at the Asan Factory before the Lunar New Year holiday tested positive after showing COVID-19 symptoms.

Sejong City is currently conducting diagnostic tests on three cohabiting family members of Sejong 213, and the number of confirmed cases related to the Asan Factory in the region may increase.

Meanwhile, confirmed cases related to the Asan Factory have been sporadically reported not only in Daejeon and Sejong but also in Daegu, Gyeongsan, Chuncheon, Osan, and other areas.

This is because during the Lunar New Year holiday, Asan Factory employees, unaware that the first employee had tested positive, visited their hometowns and met with family and acquaintances.

The quarantine authorities expect that the spread among factory personnel will slow down after completing full testing of Asan Factory employees. However, since employees traveled to their hometowns across the country during the Lunar New Year holiday, the possibility of sporadic secondary infections remains open.

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