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Corona 19 is spreading rapidly again, centered on the people who went to the Itaewon Club in Seoul last weekend. It was Wednesday, the sixth, that the first confirmed person was known, but it increased to a minimum of 94 in five days. If you look at this by region, most of the confirmed people have been in the metropolitan area so far, but there are still people who have been confirmed in various places in Chungbuk, Busan, and Jeju. The bigger problem is that nearly 2,000 people who have been to the Itaewon Club during the holiday season have not been contacted yet.

This is the first news reporter Kim Hyung-rae.

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corona19 diagnostic tests related to the Itaewon Club group infection has been expanded.

The quarantine authorities limited the number of visitors to Itaewon on May 1st and 2nd when the first confirmed person arrived, but later expanded the target to all visitors during the holiday period, and this time, the period was extended five days before the visit on April 24 to confirm that the corona 19 should be inspected. .


People confirmed so far say that symptoms began after two days, but considering the incubation period of Corona 19, it is because of the judgment that the so-called 'quiet propagation' would have occurred in the Itaewon club area earlier than this.

Also, I do not believe that one or two people may have caused the epidemic of this group infection, and we are paying attention to the possibility that there were already a large number of infected people during the holiday season.

[Jung Eun-kyung / Disease Management Headquarters: We believe that there was a small number of such infections in the community and that it was slightly amplified through the club, which was reopened during the holiday period.]

Still, there are still 2,000 Itaewon club visitors during the holiday season identified by the Seoul Metropolitan Government . If there is no close contact, and the radio wave propagation period is advanced to April 24, the inspection subject may increase significantly.

The number of secondary infections by club visitors has already exceeded 23.

Authorities repeatedly said that more than one of the three diagnoses was asymptomatic at the time of the diagnostic test, and that visitors to the Itaewon club should be hurried to have the test.

(Video coverage: Mincheol Kim, Yongwoo Kim, video editing: Jinhoon Park, VJ: Jonggap Kim)