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A corona19 group infection centered on churches in the metropolitan area spread to Namdaemun Market in Seoul. An emergency was set in health authorities as seven additional market traders were confirmed. In addition, mutations that have not been seen before have been found in the corona 19 virus detected in confirmed foreigners.

Reporter Nam Joo-hyun.

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group infection related to the Banseok Church in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province has spread from nearby daycare centers to Namdaemun Market in Seoul.

One member of the Banseok Church, who was confirmed four days ago, is a female clothing specialist in Namdaemun Market and a merchant in Kennedy Shopping District, and seven additional merchants who worked on the first floor of the same shopping district were confirmed.

Health officials have urged people who have visited Kennedy Shopping Center from the 30th to the 8th of last month to visit a screening clinic even if they do not have symptoms.

[Jung Eun-kyung / Head of Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters: We are grasping the part of the contact person through receipt or card as much as possible, and we are conducting tests on people with suspicious symptoms.]

Among these, a total of overseas confirmed cases from Pakistan and Uzbekistan are in progress. A mutated virus was detected in 3 people.

All three mutations are the same in the spike protein that causes the virus to stick to the cells in our body.

However, all of them have different locations and all three have different lines.

All of them are viruses that are not in the WHO's corona19 virus genetic information database, but there is a prospect that the effect of a treatment or vaccine may be similar when there is a mutation in the spike protein, and further research is needed.