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China is in an emergency due to the spread of Omicron mutation, but the controversy is growing as they one after another point to clothes imported from Korea as the source of corona infection.



This is a report by Correspondent Songwook in Beijing.



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is the 'Soho' building in Wangjing, a residential area with a high concentration of Koreans in Beijing.



Barricades were erected around the building, and security guards were deployed everywhere.



[Wangjing Soho Guard: I can't enter.

There was a corona 19 positive patient after 10 pm last night.]



The sudden lockdown is due to the fact that eight people, including employees of a Korean clothing store in the building, and a person living with them, were infected with Corona 19.



Beijing's quarantine authorities have blocked the entrance to the Soho building from the dawn of today (4th) and started to close the residence of the confirmed person.



The day before, the city of Dalian, Liaoning Province, announced that a confirmed person had run a Korean imported clothing store, and that both inside and outside of the clothing packaging had tested positive for coronavirus.



[Chinese Kankan News Report: The gene sequence of this Dalian infection case is different from previous domestic cases.]



Changsu, Jiangsu Province, said that four Korean T-shirts at the patient's house tested positive for Corona 19. He said it had to do with clothing.



Last month, the city of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and others asked people who bought Korean clothes to be tested, and again pointed out Korean clothes as the source of corona infection.



The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider the chances of getting infected with COVID-19 low by touching contaminated objects or packaging.



However, China continues to insist on transmission through frozen food and mail.



Amidst claims against importing Korean clothes on Chinese social media, the Korean embassy in China expressed concern about the fact that the Korean embassy in China requested the Chinese authorities to confirm the facts and announced that the country of origin of the overseas goods suspected of being a source of infection was specified in South Korea. said.



(Video coverage: Choi Duk-hyun, video editing: Kim Ho-jin)