Confirmed Cases of UK Variant Virus in Gyeongnam Province ... 2 Confirmed Patients Related to Sacheon Restaurant

Full Effort to Prevent Community Spread Through Thorough Management of Overseas Entrants

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Saeyan] Gyeongsangnam-do recently confirmed the presence of the UK variant virus in 2 of the confirmed cases, the province announced on the 27th.

On the same day, the Central Disease Control Headquarters (hereafter, KDCA) announced that an additional 86 cases of variant viruses (including 2 cases in the province) were confirmed through genetic analysis of COVID-19 confirmed cases from April 20 to 27.

KDCA conducted variant virus tests on 2 overseas entrants presumed to be index cases among 60 confirmed cases related to a cluster outbreak at a restaurant in Sacheon, Gyeongnam, and confirmed the UK variant virus in all of them.

The 39 confirmed cases who had contact with the variant virus-infected individuals were epidemiologically found to have no other infection sources and were classified as variant virus infection cases. KDCA explained that all of these can be considered variant virus infections.

KDCA confirmed that the virus transmission period of UK variant virus-infected individuals does not show a clear difference from that of non-variant virus-infected individuals, and thus changed the guidelines to apply the same quarantine release criteria as for non-variant virus infections.

Meanwhile, confirmed cases entering from countries where the South African and Brazilian variants have occurred are subject to mandatory application of test-based quarantine release criteria.

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