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consistent with this non-cooperation in quarantine, the number of confirmed cases related to the Sarangjeil Church in Seoul is increasing and being confirmed again overnight. 11 people who watched an all-night worship service with a member of Sarangjeil Church at a prayer center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do were infected.

Reporter Park Jae-hyun's report.

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Gangnam Saengsu Prayer Center in Jungwon-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do. Members of the church who attended the all-night worship service here from 2:00 p.m. on the 14th to 7:30 in the next morning were diagnosed with coronavirus.

There are 7 residents in Seongnam, 1 in Seoul, 2 in Incheon, and 1 in Siheung, Gyeonggi-do.

At that time, a member of Sarangjeil Church attended the all-night service, and this member was confirmed on the 16th.

Accordingly, as the quarantine authorities examined people who had contact with this church member, there were several confirmed cases.

[Kim Kang-rip / Vice Minister of Health and Welfare: The infection continues to spread in the metropolitan area, and it is a crisis situation of despair that can lead to a nationwide pandemic at any time.] A

total of 21 attendees of the all-night worship service were identified as self-quarantine and corona19 test. Proceeded.

In addition, we are conducting an epidemiological investigation on the movement of confirmed patients and contacts.

Two additional people who visited the funeral home where a confirmed person related to Sarangjeil Church worked as an assistant were also infected.

They were found to have visited the funeral home between the 12th and 13th, and they were examined in the afternoon of the day before (19th) and were confirmed.

One of them died yesterday at home before being taken to a medical institution.

In Siheung, Gyeonggi-do, one person who attended the Gwanghwamun rally was confirmed to be confirmed overnight.