<Anchor> Although the number of
new confirmed cases of Corona 19 has dropped below 200 a day, small group infections are still appearing here and there.
Yesterday (3rd), 6 people each were confirmed at a chicken restaurant in Asan Hospital in Seoul and Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do.
Reporter Lee Hyun-jung reports.
<Reporter> A
cancer patient in her 50s, who was hospitalized at Seoul Asan Hospital, was confirmed yesterday with Corona 19, and five additional patients, including two other patients and three guardians, were confirmed yesterday.
All confirmed cases came from the 7th floor of the East Building.
Four patients were hospitalized in the 6-person ward on the 7th floor. Following A, a male cancer patient in her 50s, the first confirmed, one patient and two guardians were confirmed, and one patient and one guardian each were confirmed in two next wards.
The hospital examined all 350 patients, guardians, and medical staff up to the 7th floor and the 8th floor, where the medical staff went to and from, but the rest were negative and were moved to the quarantine ward.
The route of infection of the first confirmed person has not yet been confirmed.
[Seoul Asan Hospital officials: Through an additional epidemiological investigation, additional corona diagnostic tests will be conducted for employees or patients with overlapping movements with confirmed patients.] At the
famous chicken chain BHC Seongnam Sinheung Sujin Station, out of 7 employees All but one are infected with Corona 19, and the quarantine authorities are investigating the route.
On the 1st, one employee was confirmed for the first time, three yesterday and two yesterday.
The quarantine authorities visited the store from the 23rd to the 31st of last month and requested that anyone with suspicious symptoms contact the public health center.