The National Police Hospital in Songpa-gu, Seoul, said emergency department nurses were urgently shut down after being confirmed for coronavirus infection-19 (corona 19).

According to police hospitals, nurse A in her late 20s was confirmed corona19 in the morning (25th).

Yesterday at a hospital in Seoul, I was contacted by a police hospital, saying, "I suspect a corona 19 patient came to the police department's emergency room for the last 13 days."

Only A was confirmed.

There are no known corona19-related symptoms.

Suspected patients who came to the emergency department of the police hospital are finally judged negatively, and A's path of infection is not confirmed.

Twelve people, including medical staff who have contacted Mr. A, are currently isolated from the emergency room, and Mr. A is self-contained.

The police hospital said it is discussing which hospital to transfer Mr. A to.

Not only medical staff but also many front-line police officers showed suspicious symptoms of Corona19, and their district was temporarily closed for about 17 hours before being released after a voice decision.

At 8 pm yesterday (24th), Mr. A, a late 30s who was working at the Hwagok district of the Gangseo Police Station in Seoul, complained of fever symptoms.

Slope A measured 37.7 degrees body temperature and was immediately taken to a nearby hospital by police car.

A slope was tested according to the doctor's finding that no other symptoms, such as coughing or chest pain, are needed.

Sergeant A has not been to China recently and has never been in direct contact with the sponsor.

A child of Sergeant A, who is attending a kindergarten near Hanyang University Hospital in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, was also reported to have had fever symptoms yesterday.

Hanyang University Hospital was confirmed by a corona19 confirmer on the 18th, and part of the hospital was closed.

Sergeant A was discharged with a Corona19 voice judgment around 1 pm today.

As a result, 18 police officers from Hwagok Earth Zone, who were in self-containment within Earth Zone, including two colleagues who sent Sergeant A to the hospital, were also released from containment.

Defense work is being done at the police office building in Migun-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul this afternoon.

The mother of a member of the Department of Transportation was identified as a Corona19 confirmer.

An official from the National Police Agency said, "The police station is under quarantine while controlling access to the Transportation Bureau's office on the 14th floor of the building."

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