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Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, the number of confirmed patients is increasing as a visiting nursing home in her 70s who hid her attendance at the Gwanghwamun meeting was confirmed.
The 70s also hid the fact that they were hospitalized for four days, but the 60s who used the same room were confirmed, and only 700 people are expected to be tested.
Reporter Jin Ki-hoon of CJB reported.
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Mr. A, a visiting nursing nurse in the 70s of Cheongju, who attended the Seoul Gwanghwamun rally and denied it and refused the diagnostic test by the quarantine authorities.
After attending the meeting, Mr. A was admitted to a hospital in Cheongju for shingles treatment for four days, but was concealed by this fact and was caught in the epidemiological investigation process.
[Chungju Cheongju Sangdang Health Center official: At first, you didn't say anything.
We investigated the history of card usage and visits to hospitals and pharmacies called DUR (Drug Formulation Dispensing System).] In the
hospital where Mr. A was treated, more than 500 people including patients, guardians, and staff were subjected to diagnostic tests.
The wavelength does not end here.
Mr. B, a woman in her 60s living in Okcheon, who shared the same room as Mr. A, was confirmed. This woman is working as a nurse at a hospital in Boeun-gun.
More than 200 people, including 200 patients and staff at the hospital where Mr. B works, and 12 people in Okcheon, where he lived, were tested for specimens.
The quarantine authorities believe that Mr. A has already infected five people, including mother-in-law, nephew, and day care facility users used by mother-in-law.
Cheongju City is planning to claim the right to indemnify medical expenses and examination expenses, etc. through additional epidemiological investigations following the accusation of Mr. A.
(Video coverage: Kim Geun-hyuk CJB)