Five School Meal Workers Confirmed COVID-19 Positive in Ulsan... School Quarantine Alert Ahead of New Semester

On the 17th, health authorities are conducting tests on workers at Jingwan Industrial Complex in Namyangju-si, Gyeonggi Province, where a COVID-19 cluster infection occurred, in front of a company within the complex. Photo by Mun Ho-nam munonam@

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] In just two days, five elementary school meal service workers in Ulsan tested positive for COVID-19, raising alarms for quarantine measures ahead of the new school term.

Ulsan city health authorities announced on the 18th that a total of nine people tested positive for COVID-19.

Among them, four individuals numbered Ulsan 983 to 986 are elementary school meal service workers. They are colleagues of Ulsan case number 978, who tested positive the previous day, increasing the number of infected people to five over two days. Ulsan 978 was found to have come into contact with a confirmed case who had visited a funeral hall in Busan.

Ulsan 978 showed suspected symptoms on the 10th and was confirmed to have worked until the morning of the 15th, after the Lunar New Year holiday. Ulsan cases 983 to 986 worked until the 16th.

It is known that students in grades 1 and 2 attended in-person classes from the 8th to the 10th, and grades 3 and 4 attended in-person classes on the 15th and 16th.

From the morning of that day, quarantine authorities set up a screening clinic on the school playground and conducted comprehensive testing on 638 people, including 567 students from grades 1 to 4 and 71 staff members.

Among the eight people working in the meal service area, aside from the five confirmed cases, the remaining three tested negative, and three meal service helpers were also confirmed negative.

At an elementary school in Jung-gu, Ulsan, where two confirmed cases were reported the previous day, COVID-19 tests conducted on 158 students and staff all came back negative.

All of these cases are classified as Ulsan area confirmed cases related to the Busan funeral hall. Since the first confirmed case on the 12th, 23 people have tested positive in the Ulsan area within a week.

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