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There is one more worrisome news when students start school. Four nurses at the Samsung Seoul Hospital, one of the 'Big 5' hospitals in Korea, were confirmed corona19. Due to the peculiarity of the hospital, I still have more worries because the path of infection is still unknown.

Reporter Kim Hyeong-rae.

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A nurse in her 20s, who worked at the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Samsung Seoul Hospital, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, was confirmed by Corona 19 yesterday (18th) in the afternoon.

Mr. A participated in the surgery on the 14th, and symptoms of fever and sore throat began on the 16th, and he was confirmed yesterday after not attending work.

262 medical staff and 15 patients were classified as contact persons, and among them, three fellow nurses were confirmed.

One of them had symptoms of muscle pain since yesterday, but the other two were said to be asymptomatic.

As the number of confirmed patients increased to 4, the number of contacts surveyed in the hospital also exceeded 600.

Currently, 273 people are waiting for test results.

A, as well as all four nurses, have never been in contact with anyone who has ever been to or from Itaewon, so the route of infection has not been confirmed.

The hospital closed the entire operating floor on the third floor where they worked and stopped accepting new patients in the main building.

[Park Won-soon / Seoul Mayor: It is a very serious situation that a group infection has occurred in a large hospital with many serious patients and underlying patients… .]

In Gangnam Hospital, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi Province, a radiologist from the 20s who had contact with a visitor to the Itaewon Club was confirmed.

The health authorities are separating the medical staff from Gangnam Hospital and about 200 patients and conducting epidemiological investigations.