Women in their 80s who were admitted to Qingdao Senior Citizens' Nursing Hospital and confirmed confirmed with a new type of coronavirus infection (Corona 19) were negatively tested four times before death.

According to Gyeongbuk Province on the 6th, a 86-year-old woman who was hospitalized at Qingdao County Senior Citizens' Nursing Hospital died of pneumonia.

The woman was negative for pneumonia after a first screening of Corona19 on the 21st of last month.

Since then, he had a fever and had three more tests on the 23rd, 27th and March 2nd of the same month.

The health authorities conducted five or six tests when the woman, who had been hospitalized since March, died of pneumonia on the 4th, and both were positive.

The woman suffered from dementia and was classified as confirmed after death.

Kim Young-gil, Director of the Health Policy Department of Gyeongbuk Province, said, "The nursing hospital uses the same building as the Daenam Hospital where the corona 19 group has been affected. It is connected to the psychiatric ward. May have failed to properly sample, and if the test results are ambiguous between the positive and negative boundaries, we have to test continuously. ”

In addition, "This place is connected to the Namnam Hospital, so I know that the test was continued for epidemiological investigations," he said, "There are no people who show additional confirmed or suspected symptoms in nursing hospital so far."