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26 new Korean confirmed patients were announced yesterday (20th), especially in the community, 4 people. However, after the announcement, the number of infections was confirmed at a nursing facility in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, and the number is expected to increase considerably today. After I went to the Itaewon Club in May and was confirmed, the instructor of Incheon, who was hiding his job, was arrested.

Reporter Park Jae-hyun.

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Visiting the Itaewon Club in early May, Mr. A, an academy instructor who was confirmed by Corona.

At the time, Mr. A stated that he had no job in an epidemiological investigation, but revealed that he taught at a moisturizing school when he returned home through GPS tracking.

Because of Mr. A's lie, the health authorities were unable to isolate the contact for three days, resulting in a seventh infection and over 80 additional confirmed cases nationwide.

Mr. A is known to have said to the police, "I was shocked by the corona formation and lied to me."

The police filed for a warrant for arrest, saying "the charges are serious", and the court issued a warrant on the 17th saying there is fear of escape.

Yesterday A was handed over to the prosecution for violating the Infectious Diseases Act, which is subject to imprisonment for not more than two years.

[Jung Eun-Gyeong/Disease Management Division: Since the second patient is already onset after about 3 days due to the short incubation period, it is necessary to shorten this period even a little to prevent the nth transmission early (to prevent it.)]

Infection in the local area seemed to falter at a single digit in 73 days, and yesterday, however, a collective infection occurred again in a nursing facility in Gangseo-gu, Seoul.


As the man in his 80s who used this facility was confirmed, 109 users, employees, and external instructors were examined, and 8 of them were additionally confirmed.