South Korea nightclub outbreak: 168 people confirmed to be infected with a fourth infection 18:54 on May 17th
Due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus in a nightclub in Seoul, South Korea, 168 people have been confirmed to have been infected. For the first time, a fourth infection was confirmed through a karaoke store visited by a nightclub customer, and the Korean government is calling for refraining from using the karaoke store.
Regarding the outbreak of the new coronavirus that occurred at the night club in Itaewon (Itaewon), a downtown area of Seoul earlier this month, the South Korean government confirmed the infection at a press conference on the afternoon of the 17th. It was announced that there were 168 people, including 2 people with the fourth infection.
This is the first time that a fourth infection has been confirmed in this outbreak.
One of them was a prison officer at the Seoul Detention Center, who attended a wedding together with a friend who had been confirmed to have been infected and contacted a nightclub guest at a karaoke store he went to before the ceremony. There were people.
The prison officer was in contact with about 280 colleagues and defendants, and a part of the court in Seoul was closed for disinfection work on the 15th, and the trial was suspended.
In addition, the other person, when he visited another karaoke shop earlier, about an acquaintance that his family was together at a restaurant, he found out that he was in a room after a nightclub customer used it. , The Korean government is calling for refraining from using karaoke stores.