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Another difference with patient 16 was that he had been exposed to the community for 16 days without defense. In particular, I was hospitalized in a hospital in Gwangju for a week, and the hospital was quarantined by the whole hospital yesterday (four days). The entire community, including the nursery where the son of patient 16 lives, is drinking.

Reporter Bae Jung-hoon has reported.

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Gwangju Metropolitan City 21st Century Hospital.

The front door is closed and there is a notice saying it is a temporary closure.

At lunch, quarantine work was underway, and all existing inpatients are in the room.

[Hospital visitor: (in hospital) I have to deliver this medicine… (Mother comes out?) No, I can't.]

In more than 150 hospitals, including general inpatients and medical staff, 16 patients were hospitalized for a week without being confirmed.

The health authorities are not allowed to leave or discharge inpatients unless instructed to do so.

[21st century hospital officials: I was treated on the 27th and went to Jeonnam National University Hospital and came back on the 28th and said that there was no problem at Chonnam National University Hospital.

Patient 16, who visited Chonnam National University Hospital last month, was not tested for the new coronavirus because the fever rose to 38.9 degrees and went through Thailand, not China.

[Chonnam National University Hospital official: You said you came from Thailand, but if you didn't know, I contacted the public health center. And you went as it is.]

The child's nursery, where the son of patient 16, went, was reported to be temporarily closed, and quarantine measures were also carried out around the home.

Confirmation is only a long time after the onset of symptoms, and measures to prevent infection in the community are urgently needed.