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Kia Motors' Gwangmyeong Sohari plant, where the first confirmed cases came out and stopped operation yesterday (16th), the number of patients increased to 13.
Sporadic group infections continue to occur in social welfare facilities with a large number of the elderly.
Reporter Lee Hyun-jung on the report.
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Kia Motors' Sohari plant, where five employees were confirmed by Corona 19 and stopped operating, eight additional confirmed cases were confirmed.
On the 12th, Mr. A, who visited a family member of a fellow employee, was confirmed first, and then spread to the same production line employee and his or her family.
More than 150 close contacts of confirmed patients have been tested and are waiting for the results.
The plant, which employs 6,000 people, produces 320,000 vehicles a year, and two employees were confirmed in June, and it was shut down for one day.
The number of infections in group facilities is also increasing, and 11 people, including residents, families, and employees, were confirmed in the mental care facility in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, and 9 people were tested positive in Seongnam-si welfare facilities for the disabled in three days.
In the day care center in Icheon City, one additional contact person was confirmed, and a total of 21 people.
[Jung Eun-kyung / Head of Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters: Workers and facility managers of social welfare facilities, medical institutions, and facility managers frequently used by the elderly over the age of 60 to ensure that these high-risk groups are not exposed to infection (please observe the precautions.)]
In order to preemptively respond to infection through'quiet transmission', the city of Seoul said it had found the first infected person as a result of examining 8,500 citizens over the past three months.
In the future, citizens who want to be tested will receive free preemptive tests at 7 municipal hospitals through the application on the Seoul City website.