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The nursing hospital has controlled access to outsiders since last March and has not received any visits.
So, the quarantine authorities are putting weight on the possibility of being infected through hospital staff.
It is also pointed out that the virus may have spread more in hospitals because many severely ill patients have difficulty wearing masks.
This is reporter Song Seong-jun.
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From early in the morning to the Hauterak Nursing Hospital, families of patients who were surprised by the unexpected news of parents' confirmation continued.
[Jeong Bong-gyu/Inpatient Family: (Father) If you are ninety years old and are elderly, but are suffering from corona, what would you like as a child?
I was worried.] The
confirmed cases were concentrated on the second floor of the hospital.
Ten of the 11 confirmed employees are workers on the second floor, including the nursing assistant who was first confirmed.
In addition, 33 out of 42 confirmed patients are patients in the second floor ward.
The quarantine authorities have been controlling visits and outsiders since last March, and as they have been tested for corona in new hospitalizations, they are putting weight on the possibility of transmission through employees.
[Ahn Byung-seon/Busan City Citizens' Prevention Promotion Director: There is a suspected infection among employees who are able to commute to work or work from outside, and it is estimated that the infection chain has been linked to patients and employees again.]
Concerns that the virus has already spread for a long time
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Also comes out.
The first confirmed person, the nursing assistant, stated that he had a fever after nursing a critically ill patient all day on the 7th.
This patient died of fever and dyspnea on the 12th, and the post-test was positive.
Eight people have died from fever and dyspnea at this hospital since September, but only four have died in the ward of the patient who died on the 12th.
[Ahn Byung-seon/Pusan City Citizens' Prevention Promotion Director: I think the infection has progressed for a certain period of time, not a day or two.]
Most of the severely ill patients, such as dementia, made it difficult to wear a mask, and some pointed out that the distance was not enough because the ward was narrow.
The Busan City Health Authority decided to conduct a full-scale examination on 11 patients and 1,400 employees in 11 nursing hospitals in Mandeok-dong.
(Video coverage: Kyungmoon Jung)
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