China News Service, July 29. According to Korean media reports, South Korea’s Busan Quarantine Station stated on the 29th that 12 of the 62 Russian crew members quarantined on a Russian ship were diagnosed with new crown pneumonia. Prior to this, on the 24th, 32 people were diagnosed with the new crown on the Russian ship docked in Busan Port. It is reported that there are 94 Russian crew members on the ship.
In addition, after the ship’s repairman was infected, a total of 9 people, including staff and acquaintances, were diagnosed. The epidemic is spreading to the region.
Data map: South Korea under the epidemic. Photo by China News Agency reporter Zeng Nai
So far, in the past month or so, the number of confirmed Russian crew members on the 8 foreign ships entering the Port of Busan has reached 90.
On the other hand, according to the Incheon Regional Maritime and Fisheries Agency on the 29th, on the Russian cargo ship entering Incheon North Port at 2pm local time on the 26th, a Russian crew member in his 60s tested positive for the new crown. The confirmed patient has been transferred. To the hospital. This is the first confirmed case of a crew member of the new crown in Incheon Port.
At present, among the 20 crew members on the ship, except for one who was diagnosed, the new crown test is negative, and all 19 people will be quarantined on the ship for 14 days.
In consideration of the frequent mass infections of Russian crew members in Busan Port, the epidemic prevention authorities are conducting COVID-19 tests on all crew members of Russian ships entering Incheon Port.