Worker in Jeju Contacted COVID19 Patient 31 in Daegu

The Press Briefing by Jeju Gov't on Feb. 20.

 A Jeju resident have contacted the 31st COVID19 patient confirmed in Daegu, Jeju Special Self-governing Provincial Office(Jeju) announced on Thursday.

 Jeju held an official briefing at the press room revealing that it got a notice from Korea Center for Disease Control&Prevention(KCDC) at 9:30 am this day, and it is on epidemiological investigation. The suspect, who is only disclosed as a man in his 30s, is analyzed to have met the No. 31 at a church in Daegu. The church is known to be the source of massive contagion.

 He doesn't show any symptom, yet, and denies visiting the building, Jeju added. So, they are checking his statement, and planning to run COVID19 test.

 So far, Jeju has done tests on 152 suspects, 140 of them confirmed as negative and 12 under screening, as of 9:00 am of this day.

 As COVID19 patients increase, Jeju furthers epidemioogical tests by executing them on people whom doctors get a suspicion of the symptoms and hospitalized patients from pneumonia of unknown reason, effective as of 9:00 am today. This is a more active preemptive measure to prevent the disease from being spreaded after 13 days from the beginning of the 5th version of response manual on February 7th.

 

 (Everybody, stay healthy! Call 1339(KCDC) and press number '4' to get connected to 1330(Tour Info Center) for foreging language service if you have any question or symptom of COVID19)