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Although the outbreak in Korea is somewhat slow, group infections in Gwangju and Jeonnam are still a concern. In Seoul, Songpa-gu, Seoul, who hid the fact that he went to Gwangju to meet his relatives in an epidemiological investigation, was charged with the police.

Reporter Choi Ho-won reports.

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prevention agency reported that the 60th confirmer in Songpa-gu, Seoul, was related to the collective infection of a visiting dealer in Gwanak-gu, Seoul.

This confirmed person was positive on the 15th, but he stayed in Gwangju for 3 days and met 17 relatives.

Nine of the relatives were subsequently confirmed, and two of their relatives' workmates and one institute were also confirmed.

As a result, the number of confirmed persons in Gwangju and Jeonnam areas related to Songpa 60 increased to 12 people yesterday (19th) in the afternoon.

The number of contacts reached 647 people.

Among the relatives confirmed, 370 elementary school students and faculty members, two of whom were elementary school children and schoolchildren, all sounded, but went into remote class in self-containment.

The city of Gwangju accused the police of spreading the infection because the 60th confirmed Songpa was not informed in time of the epidemiological investigation.

[Lee Yong-seop/Director of Gwangju Metropolitan City: A close contact with a visit to a relative's Gwangju relatives and a visit to Gwangju after confirming the fact that the number of confirmed patients continues to increase and many citizens are suffering and suffering.]

In addition, an instructor in Incheon in their 20s who was infected by Corona 19 at the Itaewon Club in Seoul in May and called the job unemployed and hid even on the mobile route was arrested today.