11 Confirmed Cases in Jeonnam on the 24th, Including 1 Related to Gwangju Insurance Company Call Center

Chain Infection Among Families of Confirmed Cases with Unknown Infection Routes

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] As COVID-19 infections are increasing in the Gwangju area, health authorities are on alert as confirmed cases have also emerged in the Jeonnam region related to a call center of an insurance company.

According to Jeonnam Province on the 25th, 11 people were confirmed positive for COVID-19 in one day, classified as Jeonnam cases 839 to 849. By region, there were 6 in Mokpo, 3 in Haenam, 1 in Naju, and 1 in Suncheon.

Among them, case 849 was identified as a contact of Gwangju case 2023. Gwangju case 2023 is an employee of an insurance company call center in the Gwangju area.

At the insurance company call center, a total of 36 people tested positive from the 22nd to the previous day, including 31 employees, 2 family members, and 3 acquaintances of confirmed cases.

There were also successive family transmissions (cases 841?843 and 846?848) from case 840, whose infection route is unclear. Among them, a colleague of case 842 was also confirmed positive and classified as case 845.

The infection routes of cases 839 and 844 have not yet been confirmed.

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