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Overnight, two more Korean corona19 confirmed. Men in their 50s in Qingdao, North Gyeongsang Province, increased 22 people in one day yesterday (19th). Twenty-two of the 22 residents are residents of Daegu and Gyeongbuk. In the Seoul metropolitan area, 11-year-old daughter of 20 patients was confirmed and became the first child patient in Korea.

Reporter Min Kyung-ho reports.

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Last night, two men in their 50s were confirmed as corona19 at Daenam Hospital in Qingdao, Gyeongbuk, and later transferred to Pohang Medical Center.

An official from Pohang said, "We have moved two confirmed patients to Pohang Medical Center according to the disease management headquarters."

Putting them together, the total number of additional people confirmed yesterday was 22.

2 patients in the metropolitan area and 20 patients in Daegu-Gyeongbuk.

Of the two who were positive yesterday prior to two Qingdao confirmers, 14 were members of the Shinchonji Church, such as Patient 31, and the other was a new Oriental hospital staff member who was admitted to Patient 31.

The National Defense Agency says it is planning a diagnostic test for the entire church without deciding patient 31 as the source of infection.

One in two metropolitan confirmers is a 77-year-old Korean male who lives in Seongdong-gu, Seoul. She has no overseas travel history and has never been in contact with another.

The 11-year-old daughter of 20 patients who had contacted 15 patients was confirmed as the first child patient in Korea.

The number of corona19 cumulative confirmations to date is currently 53, of whom 16 have been discharged and discharged yesterday.