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quarantine authorities started a local epidemiological investigation against Sarangjeil Church. It is to find data such as a list of members, but church officials are having a hard time blocking it.

This is Kim Kwan-jin.

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Epidemiological investigators from the quarantine authorities visited Sarangjeil Church in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, yesterday (20th) afternoon.

In order to secure data for quarantine, including a list of congregation members, and to find out the reason and cause of the spread of infection related to Sarangjeil Church, we conducted a field investigation.

However, church officials refused to enter the epidemiological investigator, demanding a seizure and search warrant.

Police officers were put in amid confrontation between the quarantine authorities and the church, and some epidemiological investigators entered the church around 8 o'clock yesterday, three hours after the confrontation.

However, it was reported that the quarantine authorities were unable to secure a member list because the church building was locked.

Sarangjeil Church has previously submitted a list with the names of about 900 people two times, but the quarantine authorities believe that the number of members is incorrect.

Sarangjeil Church yesterday criticized the act of forcing members to submit a list of members and to be tested for corona by posting a ``popular admission statement'' in some newspaper advertisements as a violation of authority and illegal imprisonment.

[Kwon Jun-wook/ Deputy Head of Central Defense Countermeasure Headquarters: As a quarantine authority, epidemiological investigation as it is without prejudice against any specific group, facility, or institution... .]

It is known that among the residents of the church, members of conservative groups came up from all over the country to prevent the church building from being demolished.