<Anchor> The number of

corona-infected people started at the Itaewon Club increased to 219. However, today (23rd), the fifth infection was confirmed. I went to Itaewon and started as an instructor at an institute in Incheon where I was infected. Before the infection spread longer and wider, the quarantine authorities appealed to people who had overlapping lines to get tested even if they had no symptoms.

Today's first news is reporter Jung Da-eun.

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There are currently 2 people identified by the quarantine authorities as the fifth infection.

All of them are related to the instructor of the school in Incheon, who hid the fact that they visited the Itaewon Club.

From the instructor of this school, the 5th preaching took place from a lecturer to a student who went to the same karaoke room, a father, and a colleague.


A taxi driver who visited the same karaoke room also led to the fifth infection through a stone feast for photography.


[Kwon Joon-Wook / National Institute of Health Research: Corona 19 is very fast, that is, it is asymptomatic or it can be realized that it has already spread vigorously before symptoms develop.]

Among the 219 confirmed members of the Itaewon Club There are 95 club visitors and 124 contacts, the infection is greater through contact.

The number of confirmed cases related to Samsung Seoul Hospital nurses has increased to nine.

It was confirmed that not only two pub employees in Seocho-gu, Seoul, but also one of their employees' families, who were attended by this nurse, were infected.

Quarantine authorities are still uncertain whether the spread began at a nurse's acquaintance, or from a staff member or visitor in Seocho-gu.

[Kwak Jin / Chief Director, Patient Management Team, Central Defense Response Headquarters: We are still confirming the sequential relationship in the infection chain, such as what kind of severity and what kind of person has spread to the

nine .] People who have visited a pub or a karaoke room in Seocho-gu, Seoul, who had been diagnosed for 10 days, were asked to undergo a diagnostic test even without symptoms.

In addition, he repeatedly emphasized that he would refrain from visiting multi-use facilities, saying that infections in the community due to contact are increasing in clubs, taverns, and karaoke.

(Video editing: Park Ji-in)