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Sarangjeil Church is consistent with non-cooperation in quarantine, the number of infections related to this church has continued to increase and has also increased overnight. It was confirmed that 11 people who watched an all-night worship service with Sarangjeil Church members at a prayer center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do were collectively infected.

Reporter Park Jae-hyun on the 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, a total of 11 people.

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

As a result, the quarantine authorities inspected people who had contact with this congregation.

[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, and all of them were classified as self-quarantine. I went through the inspection.

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 from the 12th to the 13th, and they were examined the afternoon of the day 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.