Another coronavirus infection-19 (Corona 19) confirmed cases occurred at Seoul Asan Hospital, the largest in Korea.

It is the first of the largest 5 hospitals in Korea on the 31st of last month, and is the second to be confirmed after the corona19 confirmed in this hospital.

Seoul Asan Hospital announced that the mother of a baby B (40 years old), who was hospitalized in the same room as the first confirmed patient, 9-year-old girl A, was confirmed as Corona 19 on the 4th.

According to Seoul Asan Hospital, baby B moved to the 136th hospital ward (six rooms) where Yang A was hospitalized on the 28th of last month and used the same room until Yang A was confirmed on the 31st.

The mother of the second confirmed baby was postpartum cooking immediately after childbirth, so she was found to be in the hospital room on the 28th (2 hours) and 30th to 31st (21 hours) of the four days overlapping the hospitalization periods of the A and B babies.

Baby B's mother returned home from Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do, before Ms. A was confirmed on the 31st of last month.

During the self-containment, the joint epidemiological investigation team decided to return to Seoul Asan Hospital by an ambulance in Songpa-gu at 10:50 pm on the 3rd of this month.

Afterwards, the next day, the morning of the 4th day, the corona19 was tested and positive.

Baby B and B's father were identified as negative.

Earlier, A was confirmed to be positive for Corona 19 on the 31st of last month.

Miss A was in the six-person room where the mothers of B and B children stayed until the morning of the 31st, and then moved to the single room, and on the same afternoon, Corona19 was confirmed.

At that time, the diagnostic test was conducted after confirmation that Ms. A had been to Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital before being admitted.

Seoul Asan Hospital announced that it will notify promptly when additional epidemiological investigation results are available.

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