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After Japan and Thailand, today (5th) Singapore, I have been confirmed after visiting a country other than China. In particular, the fact that I've never been to China, even though I have a fever, is missing from the test.

This is reporter Kim Hyung-rae.

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Patient 16, who was confirmed yesterday, visited the Gwangju 21st Century Hospital and Chonnam National University Emergency Department with high fever last month.

Pneumonia has been confirmed, and both hospitals have contacted their local public health center, but have been told that they are not subject to new corona tests.

I haven't visited China recently.

[Chonnam National University Hospital official (Yesterday): I didn't know, so I contacted the public health center. ]

Eventually, the patient continued to be hospitalized and hospitalized in the 21st century hospital, increasing the number of contacts she had reached to 306 and confirmed her children.

The same is true for patients 12 and 17 who are allegedly infected with new coronaviruses in Japan and Singapore, respectively.

I did not have a new coronavirus test because I had never visited Wuhan in China or had been in contact with patients in Korea.

Eventually, community activities continued in a timely manner without being quarantined, and the number of contacts blew like snowballs, leaving the medical institutions visited unprotected.

[CEO Jae-wook Choi / Professor of the Korean Medical Association, (Professor of the Department of Preventive Medicine, Ancient Medical School): In order to confirm the examination at the doctor's discretion, it is necessary to send the instructions to the first-line medical institutions and execute them promptly.]

Health authorities are also aware of these loopholes, but are still facing difficulties.

[Kim Kang-rip, Deputy General Manager, Central Accident and Welfare Division (Minister of Health and Welfare): Only 160 diagnostic tests can be handled per day at this time, and therefore the tests will be carried out focusing on suspicious patients who have visited China, which is expected to be at high risk. There is no choice but to do it.]

The government plans to increase the volume of inspections to 2,000 per day starting on the 7th, when the new test kits are introduced. Nevertheless, additional measures are needed as it is difficult to meet all inspection demands.