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Yesterday (9th), there were 1,378 new confirmed cases of Corona 19.

Again, it's an all-time high.

Another worrying thing happened, an employee of the exhibitor was confirmed at the baby products fair held at COEX, Seoul.

It is a large-scale event with 4,000 people attending.

The organizers have completely canceled the event scheduled for tomorrow.



First of all, this is reporter Park Soo-jin.



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This morning, the site of the baby products fair at COEX, Seoul.



After opening hours, no visitors are visible, and exhibitors are busy unloading their luggage and demolishing booths.



An event has been held here since the 8th.



However, today, the event was completely suspended as one employee of the participating company was confirmed.



As you can see, all of the exhibited items have been demolished.



The confirmed person was an employee of a baby products company, and it has been identified that he has been resident at the event since last Thursday.



About 4,000 people visited the venue during this period.




As a result of the epidemiological investigation, it was confirmed that the confirmed person wore a mask at all times and did not eat or drink inside the venue.



[Gangnam Public Health Center officials: It was confirmed that it was a solo booth, and there were very few people who visited. I think it was a situation where there were few contacts.] The



quarantine authorities judged that the exhibition was possible, but the organizer canceled the event and recommended diagnostic tests to participating companies and visitors.



[Lee Min-ju/World Exhibition (event organizer) Manager: Families of all participating companies and those who came to see are parents raising infants, so we decided that we should not delay.]



Exhibitors also I agree with this decision.



[Exhibition company officials: Most of the companies are in a state of being inspected. (If you don't know?) Yes,



just in case

.] The

previous cluster infection at the Hyundai Department Store Trade Center branch increased the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 104.



The number of workers is the highest with 78, and the number of confirmed visitors has increased to 14.



(Video coverage: No. 1, Video editing: Moo-Hwan Cho)