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Seoul, more than 500 confirmed cases were first reported, and about half were outbreaks in Eastern detention centers.
Since the first infection last month, the number of confirmed cases related to the Eastern Detention Center has soared to 514, and reporter Jeong Seong-jin analyzed the reason.
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additional 288 people confirmed at the Dongbu Detention Center in Seoul were negative in the last 1st full test.
The building structure of the eastern detention center is blamed for the snowball-like increase in confirmed cases.
Other correctional facilities are two- to three-story low buildings, whereas the Eastern Detention Center is a'apartment-type' structure consisting of five 12-story buildings in a row.
There are also no outdoor playgrounds in other correctional facilities.
[Yoon Tae-ho / Head of the Central Accident Control Headquarters: There is a playground, so other detention centers have outdoor activities together, but this (Eastern detention center) seems to have such a characteristic that most of the life takes place indoors.]
There is a corridor between buildings
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They are connected and are vulnerable to ventilation, such as using elevators when moving.
More than 2,400 people, 340 more than 2,70 people, are concentrated, and the high density of accommodation seems to be the cause.
The quarantine authorities thought it was unlikely that the infection in the detention center would spread outside.
[Yoon Tae-ho/Head of the Central Accident Control Headquarters: These are those issues that are already being managed within the quarantine network, so these are not those areas that are further spread to the local community.]
However, among the 514 confirmed cases, the employee's family member There are also 16 outsiders, so it's too early to feel completely relieved.
The quarantine authorities have decided to increase the quarantine period for new prisoners from two to three weeks, and only remove them from quarantine when a negative PCR test is confirmed.