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the first time in Seoul, there were more than 500 additional confirmed cases yesterday (24th).

About half of them were infected at the Seoul East Detention Center.

The virus seems to have spread rapidly due to the structure of the detention center, which does not have an outdoor playground, and the dense environment.



Reporter Jeong Seong-jin pointed out.



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additional 288 people confirmed at the Seoul East Detention Center were negative in the last 1st full test.




The building structure of the eastern detention center is blamed for the snowball-like increase in confirmed cases.



Other correctional facilities are two- to three-story low-rise buildings, whereas the Eastern Detention Center is a'apartment-type' structure with five 12-story buildings connected in a row.



There are also no outdoor playgrounds in other correctional facilities.



[Yoon Tae-ho / Head of the Central Accident Control Headquarters: There is a playground, so other detention centers have outdoor activities together, but this (Eastern detention center) seems to have such a characteristic that most of the life takes place indoors.]



There is a corridor between buildings

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They are connected and are vulnerable to ventilation, such as using elevators when moving.



More than 2,400 people, 340 more than 2,70 people, are concentrated, and the high density of accommodation seems to be the cause.



The quarantine authorities thought it was unlikely that the infection in the detention center would spread outside.



[Yoon Tae-ho/Head of the Central Accident Control Headquarters: These are those issues that are already being managed within the quarantine network, so these are not those areas that are further spread to the local community.]



However, among the 514 confirmed cases, the employee's family member There are also 16 outsiders, so it's too early to feel completely relieved.



The quarantine authorities decided to increase the quarantine period for new prisoners from 2 weeks to 3 weeks, and only remove them from quarantine if a negative PCR test was confirmed.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, Video editing: Kim Jong-tae)