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In the Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, seven more patients were also admitted. Nine confirmed patients were confirmed in three days, and the health authorities and the hospital decided to conduct tests on both inpatients and medical staff and close the hospital tomorrow morning (1st).

Reporter Sangmin Kim.

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Medical staff at Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital are being screened at selected clinics.

In this hospital, two patients were diagnosed yesterday and yesterday, followed by seven more confirmed today.

There are 1 nurse, 2 patients, and 4 caregivers.

All seven confirmed cases were confirmed to have stayed in the ward on the 8th floor with an 82-year-old inpatient who was confirmed yesterday.

As the concern about group infections in hospitals grew, the health authorities and hospitals decided to stop all outpatient services starting at 8 am tomorrow.

In addition, we decided to conduct a total investigation of over 2,000 people, including the emergency room, the ward medical staff on the 8th floor, 500 patients and caregivers, and other ward staff and staff.

The hospital is said to be closed until the 5th of the following month.

More than 460 inpatients will continue to receive treatment regardless of hospital closure.

The 75-year-old man, the first confirmed patient at the hospital, had symptoms of pneumonia on the 16th while staying at a nursing home in Yangju.

Health authorities are conducting an epidemiological investigation to confirm that the patient and the second confirmed patient of the hospital, a 82-year-old woman, overlapped the ward on the 8th floor.

(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol, video editing: Choi Hye-young)

▶ Seoul Asan Hospital 9-year-old confirmed patient, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital