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Although not comparable to the situation in Daegu, two confirmed patients were confirmed yesterday (20th). In Jongno-gu, where six confirmed patients were confirmed, we decided to close Tapgol Park, which is visited by seniors, for the time being.

Reporter Han Ji-yeon.

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A 75-year-old man, 56, has visited the hospital five times, starting with the last six days.

The man complained of symptoms such as high fever, cough, and bloody phlegm at the first visit. Said.

The councilor is currently closed, and the entire building where the councilor is located has been disinfected by the authorities.

[Graduate School Building: The Centers for Disease Control said it was all right, and he did all the prevention yesterday.]

The Seoul Metropolitan Government Office, Hanbit Child Care Center, will also be closed until the 26th, when a child of a child care center visited the lawmaker.

[Jongro-gu official: (total) We recommend to the directors that we have a nursery.]

Patient 56 has not been to a foreign country recently, but has been confirmed to have visited the Jongno Senior Welfare Center, which is included in patient 29.

[Eun-Kyung Chung / Chairman of Disease Control Division: In the 56th case, I found out that at the end of January, I visited Jongno Senior Welfare Center and had a meal with the 29th patient at a path restaurant.]

There are six corona19 confirmed patients from Jongno-gu, which is almost half of the total confirmed in Seoul.

Considering that most of these confirmers are old, Jongno-gu decided to close Tapgol Park for a while.

Epidemiological investigations are still underway for additional confirmed Seoul confirmed residents yesterday afternoon.