28 New COVID-19 Cases Reported in Gwangju Area

Screening Clinic in Nam-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City. Photo by Jin-Hyung Park bless4ya@

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Jin-hyung] The spread of COVID-19 continues mainly among foreigners in the Gwangju area.

According to Gwangju Metropolitan City on the 6th, 28 people were confirmed positive in one day, classified as cases 4241 to 4268.

The city issued an administrative order requiring mandatory diagnostic testing for workplaces employing foreign workers, and among the new confirmed cases related to this, 16 people were identified as cases 4244, 4251, 4252, etc.

Five people, cases 4246, 4247, 4248, etc., were confirmed infected at a screening clinic set up in Gwangsan-gu.

After foreign international student Jeonnam 2591 was infected at a logistics center located in the same district on the 31st of last month, two additional cases, 4242 and 4265, have been added, continuing the 'n-th infection' chain.

Among the newly infected, case 4243 had contact with case 4205, case 4245 with case 4114, case 4264 with case 4114, case 4266 with case 4224, and case 4267 with case 4250, totaling five previously contacted individuals.

The infection routes of two cases, 4250 and 4268, have not yet been identified.

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