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Merchants were confirmed one after another at Kennedy Shopping Center in Namdaemun Market in Seoul, and an additional person was confirmed in the Joongang Shopping Center nearby. It is a large shopping mall with more than 500 stores, and the health officials said that those who went to the central shopping center on Friday and Saturday last week should undergo an examination.

This is Nam Joo-hyun.

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It is a central shopping street located in the middle of Namdaemun Market.

A merchant who works on the 2nd floor of Building C of this building was confirmed as Corona 19.

It was confirmed that the merchant had contacted a merchant in a nearby Kennedy shopping district that was previously confirmed.

We ate together on the 30th of last month, and we met on the 7th, and the quarantine authorities are weighing in that it was spread during the meal on the 30th.

It is a tertiary infection that spread from Banseok Church in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do through Kennedy Shopping Center in Namdaemun Market to Jungang Shopping Center.

On the 7th and 8th, two days from the 9th when the symptoms of Jungang Shopping Center confirmed, a long line was created at the screening clinic near Sungnyemun at the health authorities' request for visitors to the Jungang Shopping Center to undergo examination.

[Jeong Tae-hwan/Chairman of Joongang Sangga Foreign Merchant: I am anxious, so it would be better to be sure, so I tested, quarantined, and prepared thoroughly.] In

Busan, the number of confirmed patients related to the continuing education course at Pukyong Middle and High School increased by 8, a total of 9 People.

One of the students is the family of a Russian ship repairman, who has not been confirmed and is investigating the exact route of infection.

With regard to Yeongjin 607 in Busan, 4 more crew members in quarantine were confirmed, resulting in 10 cumulative confirmations.

Authorities decided on the 4th to confirm the fact that the first confirmed ship's captain visited an overseas entrant who was in self-quarantine, and decided to reveal the exact transmission route through virus gene analysis.

(Video coverage: Donghyuk Yoo and Wonju Lee KNN, Video editing: Jiyoung Hwang)