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The center of the current situation is Sarangjeil Church, where Pastor Kwang-Hoon Jeon is located. The confirmation rate of members of this church is 25%. The situation is so serious that it took 1 person to inspect 4 people, but we are not properly cooperating. The slow test is the standard, and more than 600 people can't figure out where to live. If one of these is infected and continues to be active, secondary and tertiary infections may occur.

This is Kwon Ji-yoon.

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Since the first confirmation on the 12th, the cumulative number of confirmed cases from Sarangjeil Church nationwide is 249.

Of the 190 new confirmed cases, 107 are concentrated in Seoul, more than half of them.

[Seo Jeong-hyeop/Seoul Mayor's Authority Act: This holiday is an immediate and rapid spread. The

Seoul Metropolitan Government initiated a response by issuing an order to perform a diagnosis test against 4,066 people subject to the Sarangjeil Church test, but 669 of these were not identified due to unknown addresses. There was an emergency.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government said it was because the list of members submitted by the church was incorrect.

As concerns over the second Shincheonji incident came out, the city of Seoul visited the church in person today (16th) to secure the list.

[Kim Gyeong-tak/Seoul City Culture Policy Manager: We have secured a copy of the list we went to from August 7th to 13th. In addition, we decided to receive a list of attendees from August 1st to 6th.]

The health authorities repeatedly requested cooperation from the believers, saying that the rate of confirmation from Sarang First Church is high.

[Park Neung-hoo/Minister of Health and Welfare: As a result of examining 800 people (out of 4,000 people) until yesterday (15th), 200 people were confirmed as corona 19 patients. It shows a high positive rate of about 25%, a quarter of which is (.)]

If the diagnosis of the remaining 3,200 subjects is diagnosed, the number of confirmed cases may increase.

Some of the believers also participated in the Liberation Day urban rally, raising concerns about the nth infection.

(Video coverage: Hwang In-seok and Kim Tae-hoon, video editing: Kim Jun-hee)