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Group infection continues not only in the Seoul East Detention Center but also in nursing hospitals.
The government has come up with a countermeasure, but some point out that it is too late.
Reporter Jeong Gu-hee will explain why such a point is coming out.
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An elderly nursing hospital in Gwangju, 62 confirmed cases occurred from yesterday (2nd) to yesterday.
In the preliminary examination, 7 workers, including nursing care workers, were confirmed, and after a full examination, 55 additional people were confirmed.
At the nursing hospital in Gyeyang-gu, Incheon, 48 people were also tested positive.
The hospital was quarantined in a cohort with negative patients.
[Health
Center
Officials: There may be people who have voiced voices during the incubation period, so we are checking the distance from the bed or something like this on a business trip.] As the
mass infection of nursing hospitals followed and side effects of cohort quarantine continued to occur, the government took measures belatedly.
[Son Young-rae / Head of Strategic Planning Division, Central Accident Control Headquarters: (For nursing hospitals) All groups of confirmed or non-confirmed will be transferred to the outside, and only homogeneous groups will be quarantined.
All nursing hospitals nationwide are subjected to a PCR test every week.]
However, nursing hospitals in the metropolitan area are already being tested on a weekly basis.
In the case of the Incheon nursing hospital, where group infection was newly confirmed, workers were tested in full on the 24th and 25th of last month, and all of them were negative.
Then, a week later, on the 30th and 31st, I was tested again, and 48 people were infected, including 17 employees, 28 residents, and 3 others.
Although it was tested every week and visited hospitalized patients was completely restricted, it was not enough to prevent the spread of the corona.