Jung Eun-kyung, head of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, published a paper summarizing the epidemiological investigation and prevention process at the time of the group infection in the Guro-gu call center despite the busy days of the prevention of Corona 19.

On the 26th, in the latest issue of 'Emerging Infectious Diseases', a medical journal published by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a paper on 'Call Center Group Infection' by Jung Eun-kyung, head of the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Park Shin-young, the first author), was released. . 

In the dissertation, protection officers from Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi-do participated together, and the head of the office was named as the author of responsibility (corresponding author). This is the first time that Jung has published a paper on Corona19.
The research team put a picture of the call center floor plan showing the location of the prominent person in the paper, showing that most of the Corona19 patients in the 11th floor call center were infected while facing each other or sitting side by side on one side of the building. 

"In spite of the considerable interaction between workers on different floors in the elevator and lobby of the building, the spread of Corona 19 was limited to almost 11 floors." "It's an example of how dangerous it is."
In addition, the contents of the rapid quarantine measures taken after the first patient outbreak, the estimation of actual infectivity in asymptomatic infections, and high-intensity self-isolation measures implemented by the quarantine authorities were introduced in the paper.

In their paper, the research team suggested that this case of Korea's epidemic of a call center group infection could help prevent the risk of corona19 infection in vulnerable groups.

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(Photo = Yonhap News, Emerging Infectious Diseases paper)