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Jeju has been successful in containing the COVID19 as it had 1 new case on January 28th after 4 days without any.
Case 519, the newly tested positive, is a family with case 495, who got infected by case 493(Jan. 14th) and has been in isolation since.
Meanwhile, Jeju local government is planning to start the vaccination next month. The goal is to give shots to 472,245 people(foreigners not included) which is about 70% of the whole population, by end of November.

제주도의 코로나19 진정세가 이어지고 있다. 지난 1월 24일부터 27일까지 나흘간 신규 확진자가 나오지 않은 뒤 28일엔 1명(519)이 확인됐다.
519번 신규 확진자는 493번(1월 14일)과 접촉해 1월 15일 확진된 495번 확진자의 가족으로 확인됐다. 자가격리를 하다가 해제 전 검사에서 최종 확진됐다.
이처럼 코로나19 신규 확진자 발생이 진정세에 접어든 가운데 제주도는 다음달부터 백신 접종을 시작, 올해 11월말까지 도내 인구수(674,635)의 70% 수준인 47만2,245명(외국인 미포함)에게 접종할 목표를 잡았다.

Jeju has kept 3 days of no new COVID19 case as it had none from January 24th till the 26th.

  Jeju has proven the safest destination again as it had '0' case of COVID19 for 2 consecutive days(Jan. 24~25).

  Jeju tested 520 people on January 25th, but no case came out as 'positive'. The last two zero-case days was November 21st last year. 65 days have passed ever since.

  Jeju had '0' case of COVID19 again on January 24th after 2(#517~518) on the 23rd.

- 517: Arrived in Jeju from the USA on the 23rd at about 9:00 am. Had a sample taken at the walk-thru clinic at the airport.

- 518: Had a severe fever before going to Sepgwipo Healthcare Center on the 23rd. Came to Jeju with family on January 5th. Had the symptom first on the 18th. Met other family members on the 10th and the 13th.

  This led to testing 7 people, of which 5 got negative results.

  Jeju had run tests on 209 people regarding the ferries going to Mara-do islet. All of them tested negative. It is counted that there are 873 passengers who boarded them during the dates. 169 took tests. 102 had no problem, while 67 are waiting for the outcome.

The Bangladeshi exchange student who tested positive for COVID19 in June was discharged from hospital finally on July 24.

Jeju local government today announced this news. It took more than 5 weeks since she got infected on June 18th with 2 other companies.

So, Jeju has 7 patients of the coronavirus as of today.

It is lucky enough to have a result that all 140 people who were closely contacted the 14th patient, who got infected after visiting King Club in Itaewon, Seoul on May 5th, tested NEGATIVE.
Jeju officially announced that they have finished running tests on everybody that was in the course of the itineraries of the sick.

제주도 14번 코로나19 확진자와 밀접접촉자 140명 모두 음성 판정. 다행이다. 역시 제주도에서 신종 코로나바이러스는 힘을 잃는 느낌.

Jeju is cleared from coronavirus case now again.
visitjeju.en, official English social media account of Jeju Tourism Organization, today posted the news.
It reads, as in the above picture, the 5th patient(F, 20s) was discharged from hospital at 2 pm on May 8th. She is the last one of all 13 patients in Jeju.
As a result, Jeju has come back to "0" patient of COVID-19. It had a short clean status between the 4th patient(confirmed on March 4th) and the 5th one(March 24th).

Jeju is getting close to coronavirus-free again since the 1st case on February 21st.

Jeju Special Self-governing Province on Tuesday announced that four COVID-19 patients(1st, 6th, 11th, and 12th) were discharged from hospital. These include

- 1st(M, 20s)

tested positive as the first case in Jeju on February 21st

returned to his base on March 23rd

transferred again to hospital on March 30th

- 6th(M, 30s)

confirmed on March 24th

released on April 17th

resulted positive again April 23rd

- 11th(M, 30s)

taken to hospital on April 3rd

discharged on April 21st

got positive result on April 27th

- 12th(F, 20s)

notified to be infected by Walk-thru clinic test on April 3rd

This makes the 5th patient(F, 20s), who was tested positive on March 24th after returning from Spain, the longest(45 days in treatment) case without a break. (cf. the 1st case)

Jeju is still on high alert for coronavirus quarantine and advises peopl to practice strong social-distancing after it had nearly 200,000 tourists during the golden week holiday. This sounds quite reasonable as a new case was identified which is possble super spreader.

Jeju had visitors as many as 196,138 during the golden week from April 29th till May 5th this year, Jeju Economy reported on Wednesday.
This is a reboost considering the decreasing numbers in the previous 3 months. But it is very sharp fall as much as 37.8% from the same month last year when had 315,186 visitors, it pointed out.
This is because of the coronavirus pandemic, it analyzed, as January saw 10.5% increase from January 2019, just before the outbreak.
As positive points like no new cases over 3 weeks and the first patient, who has been treated in hospital lomgest, was dischared, and negative i.e. the big wave of tourists may result in the second wave and schools reopen coexist, the coming 2 weeks or a month will be quite critical for the covid19 quarantine in Jeju.
Jeju officially announced that it will keep intensive 'social distancing' rule longer till May 18th to prevent community infection from happening, two days ago.

 Jeju today marks D+15 since the last case of COVID-19 infection was confirmed. This makes Jeju, again, a uniquely safe place from the coronavirus as it has only one spread within the island, which was between family members, and no domestic contagion.

 The 13th patient tested positive on April 14th, and has been hospitalized for treatment since. Furthermore, it has been 2 weeks since the general election, which was considered to be a turning point for easing the present alert system of strict social-distancing. The Korean government is discussing if it can lift strict rules off like opening schools again as usual.

 As of April 29th morning, Jeju has had 13 confirmed cases, but 8 of them were already discharged. There are special cases of patients who got re-confirmed, 1st, 6th, and 11th. The 5th is very distinctive because she has been in hospital since March 24th. The 12th has also been in in-bed treatment for a long time since April 3rd.

 This coming holiday will be decisive time for fighting the virus as it is expected about 180 thousand tourists will visit Jeju.