7 Additional COVID-19 Cases Confirmed Among Hongseong Prison Inmates... 5th Mass Testing on the 23rd

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] Seven more people have tested positive at Hongseong Correctional Institution in Chungnam, where a full-scale investigation is underway due to a COVID-19 cluster infection.

The Ministry of Justice announced on the 21st that, as a result of the fourth full-scale test conducted on inmates and staff at Hongseong Correctional Institution on the 20th, seven inmates tested positive.

With this, a total of 64 people have tested positive at Hongseong Correctional Institution, including 3 staff members and 61 inmates. Among the seven newly confirmed cases, six are close contacts, and the remaining one is an inmate transferred from the newly built Daegu Correctional Institution on the 13th.

In addition, the Ministry of Justice added that one staff member at Uijeongbu Correctional Institution tested positive on the 20th. The infected staff member was confirmed to have contracted the virus through family transmission.

The Ministry of Justice plans to conduct the fifth full-scale test on staff and inmates at Hongseong Correctional Institution on the 23rd. Excluding Hongseong Correctional Institution, the number of confirmed cases nationwide in correctional institutions so far is 16 people across 11 institutions (9 staff members and 7 inmates).

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