Namyangju factory group infection, test results of 950 people today

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Following yesterday (17th), the number of new coronavirus confirmed today is expected to exceed 600.

Although the number of tests increased after the Lunar New Year holidays, large-scale group infection is a problem.

At a factory in Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do, 115 people, including foreign workers, have been confirmed so far, and more than 900 people are waiting for the test results.

Reporter Jung Joon-ho reports.

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long line was lined up in front of the temporary screening test center installed on the roadside in Jingwan Industrial Complex in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province.

A total of 1,200 employees of 59 companies are being inspected.

A Cambodian worker working at a plastic manufacturing plant in the complex was confirmed to be confirmed during the Lunar New Year holiday, and after that, after a total inspection of 170 employees at the plant, 114 more were confirmed.

Of these, 106 are foreign workers, and they are known to have been living and eating together in a dormitory on the third floor of the factory.

[Dimming one / Namyangju market: were we blocked the site from AM in cooperation with the local police in view of some seriousness to the (collective) issue itself in the morning before diagnosis determined at 12]

it is after the first confirmed infection with procrastination advice Some point out that it has spread.

The first confirmed person, a Cambodian employee, showed mild fever symptoms and was confirmed on the 13th in Yongsan, Seoul, and this fact was not communicated to the Namyangju Health Center, where the factory is located, only two days or the evening of the last 15th.

[Mayor Jo Kwang-han/Namyangju: February 15th was the first time I received a wireline notification from the Yongsan-gu public health center, and the 16th was the first time I took over the detailed epidemiology.] The

results of about 950 people who were examined yesterday are expected to come out today. There is a growing concern about the spread of infection as the whereabouts of six workers in the factory where the infection occurred are not known.