It was confirmed that the corona19 group infection from Itaewon Club spread rapidly through karaoke.

Citizens' Health Director Na Baek-ju of Seoul said today (15th) that during the regular briefing at Corona 19, "five confirmed cases from Hongdae pubs were found to be related to the cases of confirmed cases at Itaewon Club."

Quarantine officials have reported cases where five people have been confirmed at a pub in Hongdae, Mapo-gu, separately from the Itaewon club-related cases and traced the route.

This is because these five people did not have a history of visiting Itaewon or overseas in epidemiological investigations.

However, the director said today, “A visitor to the Itaewon Club, a patient with a national number 10827 (Gwanak 45th) confirmed on the 8th of the last 8 days used a karaoke room in Gwanak-gu, and the first symptom manifester among Hongik University pubs used the same karaoke on the same day. I did. "

The first symptom manifestation among Hongik University pubs was patient 31 in Gangseo-gu, Seoul.

He was found to have used the same room in a karaoke room every three minutes with a patient of Gwanak 45 who visited Itaewon.

As a result, authorities in Gangseo 31 patients were secondary infections from Itaewon, and along with him, they visited the pubs in Hongdae on the 7th, including Seo-gu 14 in Incheon, 54 in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, 42 in Goyang, and 17 in Gimpo. Classified as infected.

The path of tertiary infection related to Itaewon in Dobong-gu, Seoul is also karaoke.

In the 'Gawang Coin Singing Range' in Dobong-gu, which is in trouble, the air conditioning system of each karaoke room where all the karaoke rooms are connected is presumed to be the propagation path, although not all the confirmers used the same room.

"In the case of karaoke in Dobong-gu (though the rooms used by the protagonists were different), the rooms in the karaoke rooms were ventilated with the same air conditioning system," said Nabaek-ju.

This karaoke visited the Itaewon club visitor (Gwanak No. 46), who was confirmed by Dobong No. 10 patients, and two of them (Dobong Nos. 12 and 13) were confirmed.

There is one more karaoke room besides karaoke in contact with Gangseo-gu # 31 on the line of the patient of Gwanak 45, which can be said to be the starting point of infection in Hongik University.

There are three karaoke rooms on the route of patient Gwanak 46, who is believed to have spread Corona 19 to Dobong-gu karaoke in contact with Dobong No. 10.

Accordingly, the authorities are focusing on identifying karaoke contacts.

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