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Even if it's uncomfortable, the reason we have to endure a little more is that the virus continues to spread around us. In the Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, additional confirmed patients continue to appear, and in Cheorwon, Gangwon-do, people who went to the same sauna were also confirmed.

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In addition to the ward on the 8th floor, where there were the largest number of confirmed persons, additional confirmed persons also appeared on the 6th and 7th floors.


Patients and nurses, as well as those who worked or stayed in hospitals such as the US Environmental Protection Agency, as well as their families, became infected, and the number of confirmed cases related to Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital increased to 29.

In terms of residence, it spreads across northern Gyeonggi.

The first confirmers came out of Dongducheon and Yangju, where there were no definite confirmers, and also found in Namyangju, Pocheon, and Cheorwon, Gangwon-do.

In particular, in Cheorwon, secondary infection is feared through the women's sauna.

The hospital caregiver who was the confirmed patient used the Hantan Reverse Hotel Sauna on the morning of the 29th of last month, and at the same time, women in their 50s and teens who used the sauna were judged one after another.

[Sauna official: I think he is a caregiver of Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital. I think he should have controlled himself ... ]

Cheorwon-gun examined about 30 people using the sauna at a similar time.

The health authorities are conducting a thorough examination of more than 2,500 hospital staff and patients, and they have decided to test about 400 people who were discharged immediately before infection in the hospital was confirmed.

[Kwon Joon-wook / Deputy General Manager, Central Defense Policy Division: We are conducting follow-up investigations on patients who were admitted to other medical institutions or discharged from other hospitals.]

Health officials are conducting an epidemiologic investigation to find the path of infection, saying they found an infection earlier than the 75-year-old man known as the hospital's first confirmed patient.

(Video coverage: Inpil Sung, Video editing: Seunghee Lee)