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A total of 19 new corona infection patients were identified yesterday (five days) in a day. The 18th patient was a 20-year-old daughter who had traveled to Thailand with her confirmed mother the day before. Patients 17 and 19 appeared to have been infected after attending Singapore International Conference last month, and both had been living for about 10 days since returning home.

Reporter Nam Joo-hyun reports.

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The 17 and 19 confirmed children identified yesterday are all Korean males in their 30s.

After returning to Singapore last month to attend the international conference, they returned home 24 and 23, respectively.

Both reporters visited screening clinics and were inspected in response to news that a Malaysian who had attended the same meeting was confirmed.

[Eun-Kyung Chung / Head of Disease Control Division: The head office informed employees of the fact that the person who went to the same international conference was confirmed in Malaysia.]

Patient 17 did not have a history of visiting China, and did not suspect a new corona infection.

During the Lunar New Year, we went to Daegu by public transportation such as KTX and SRT.

Epidemiology of patient 19 is ongoing.

The 18th confirmed patient is a 21-year-old woman who is the daughter of patient 16.

After my family trip to Thailand with my mother, I was admitted to the 21st century hospital in Gwangju since last month after undergoing orthopedic surgery.

Mother, patient 16, was reportedly hospitalized due to severe pneumonia symptoms while staying at the hospital to care for her daughter.

Their other family members were tested negative.