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It has been confirmed that a few days ago in Iraq, in Russia, a Korean construction company employee who was working in the country died of corona19. The five people they worked with were also confirmed, but they are still in Russia.

Reporter Han Se-hyun covered this.

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Siberia's largest industrial city'Omsk', over 2,500 km from the Russian capital Moscow.

Gazprom, a Russian state-owned oil company, is building an oil refinery here and a construction company in Korea has undertaken the construction.

The contractor sent 38 employees to the local construction site, of which field engineer A died yesterday (20th) in Corona 19 on the spot.

Mr. A had symptoms of high fever and pneumonia at the end of last month and has been hospitalized at a local hospital.

['Russian local construction' officials: I was treating, but I got better and said'It's all better' and then died suddenly.]

In addition to Mr. A who died, five Korean employees who worked together in the field also confirmed that corona19 was confirmed. That's it.

Two are cured now, but two are still in hospital.

The construction company said more than half of 38 local employees returned home and said, "The rest of the employees are also in a hurry to return home."

He also said that funeral procedures were agreed with the survivors.

It is reported that the remaining staff are currently in quarantine in the property.

Russia's cumulative corona19 is over 777,000, the fourth largest in the world.

(Video editing: Jinhoon Park, screen provided: Gazprom website)

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