Lotte Department Store headquarters in Myeong-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul will be closed from the afternoon of the seventh on a visit to a new coronavirus infection checker.

LOTTE Department Store said that the 23rd checkup in Korea went to the main office on the 2nd of this month and confirmed that it was temporarily closed from 2:00 pm on that day.

This is the first time that Lotte Department Store's main office is closed for epidemic prevention rather than its own break.

Confirmation No. 23 is a Chinese woman whose whereabouts have not been identified since she entered Seoul from Wuhan, China.

I entered the country for tourism on the 23rd of last month and was confirmed the day before while staying in a multi-family house of an acquaintance in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul.

The patient shopped at Lotte Department Store's main store at 12:40 on the 2nd day and reportedly showed symptoms on the 3rd.

Lotte said it plans to reopen the store on the 10th after thorough defense measures against the head office.

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