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Korea, the COVID-19 group infection continues in the metropolitan area and Busan. Following Kennedy Shopping Center in Seoul Namdaemun Market, confirmed cases were also found in Jungang Shopping District, and eight additional people were confirmed in a high school lifelong education course in Busan.

Reporter Nam Joo-hyun on the report.

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It is a central shopping street located in the middle of Namdaemun Market.

A merchant who works on the 2nd floor of Building C of this building was confirmed as Corona 19.

It was confirmed that the merchant had contacted a merchant in a nearby Kennedy shopping district that was previously confirmed.

We ate together on the 30th of last month, and we met on the 7th, and the quarantine authorities are currently weighing that it was spread during the meal on the 30th.

It is a tertiary infection that spread from Banseok Church in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do through Kennedy Shopping Center in Namdaemun Market to Central Shopping Center.

On the 7th and 8th, two days before the symptoms of a confirmed person in the central shopping center appeared on the 7th and 8th, a long line was created at the screening clinic near Sungnyemun at the request of the health authorities to have visitors to the central shopping district undergo an examination.

[Tae-Hwan Jung/Chairman of Jungang Shopping Center: I am anxious, so it would be better to be sure, so I test, quarantine, and prepare thoroughly.] In

Busan, the number of confirmed patients related to the continuing education course in Pukyong middle and high schools increased by 8, in total There are nine.

One of the students is a family of a Russian ship repairman, who has not been confirmed and is investigating the exact route of infection.

In relation to Yeongjin 607 in Busan, four more crew members in quarantine were confirmed, resulting in 10 cumulative confirmations.

Authorities decided on the 4th to confirm the fact that the first confirmed ship's captain visited a foreign entrant who was in self-quarantine, and decided to clarify the exact transmission route through virus gene analysis.