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Jeju on Sunday announced that all 140 self-quarantined people are now released after 2-week containment.
They were in a close contact with Jeju's 14th coronavirus patient, who got infected from the Itaewon club. The patient is in good condition, Jeju added.

제주도 14번 코로나19 확진자와 밀접 접촉자 140명 전원이 자가격리에서 해제됐다.
제주도는 24일 0시부로 이같이 조치했다고 이날 밝혔다. 이태원 킹클럽 방문 뒤 확진 판정을 받은 14번 확진자의 상태는 양호하다고 제주도는 전했다.

2020 Stepping Stone Festival is finally cancelled.
The organizer yesterday announced it via its social media. This decision came as a precaution for keeping COVID19 from spreading. It is first ever decision, of course, in its 17 years.

This is the latest notice from Jeju office. Coming through and over the waves of dangers of coronavirus infection, Jeju is stepping on procedures to go back to the new normal in COVID19 pandemic.
Hope for the best for everyone as we have been quite successful fighting the virus.

The Coronavirus Status of Jeju, May 18th.

1. Total 3 Confirmed Cases In Treatment
- The 5th Patient Re-hospitalized on May 15th
She tested positive first on March 24th before her boyfriend(The 6th), and was discharged on May 5th

- The 11th Patient Transferred To Hospital 3rd Time
He was infected by his sister(The 9th) on April 3rd, and released on April 21st. But he got positive test 6 days later, and had medical cares till May 5th before got the 3rd test result on May 11th.

- The 14th Infected After Visiting The Itaewon Club

제주도 코로나바이러스 현황
1. 5월 18일 0시 기준 3명 치료 중
- 5번 확진자 재확진
5월 15일 최초 학진 판정 받은 뒤 5월 5일에야 퇴원. 5월 15일 재확진

- 11번 확진자 세 번째 재확진
가족(9번 확진자) 통해 4월 3일 확진 판정. 4월 21일 퇴원했으나 4월 27일 재확진 판정. 5월 5일 다시 퇴원했다가 5월 11일 재확진

- 14번 확진자
이태원 클럽 방문했다가 5월 9일 확진

Jeju government on Friday announced that its 5th coronavirus patient, who was very recently discharged from hospital after a very long treatment, tested positive again, and tranferred for quarantined care.
She got infected, fir the first time, after coming back to Korea from Spain and spending over a month for cure.
Her boyfriend, who was with her all the way to Spain abd back to Jeju, had the same case that he got positve again after returning to normal life.

제주도 코로나19 5번 확진자 퇴원 뒤 재확진. 3월 24일 확진 판정 후 한 달 넘게 치료받다 지난 5월 8일에서야 퇴원. 하지만, 결국 5월 15일 검체 검사받은 뒤 양성 판정.
남자친구 또한 스페인까지 동행하면서 양성 확진자였는데, 먼저 퇴원했으나 재확진 판정 받아서 재입원한 전력이 있음.

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.

The whole Jeju island on Saturday night was shocked with the 14th coronavirus case confirmed. The new patient, a female in her 30s, tested positive for COVID-19 late that day after visiting King Club which is one of the latest epicenters.
According to Jeju office, she reported to the authority that she stayed there on May 5th, from 1230 am till 600 am while she was visiting Seoul. She came back to Jeju the next day via a flight. She didn't have symptoms till she went to a special test center at Jeju Healthcare Center on the 9th.

This made it worse as she has contacted as many as 140 people while she worked at a local skincare clinic. They are her colleagues including doctor(10), clients(124), bus drivers(4), and a clerk at a food material mart(1). The doctor and one workmate even had a fever, which turned out to be negative innthe end.
The local authority has done tests on 102 people till now, and got no positive result other than the 14th.
As worries are accumulating, Jeju government is practicing more intensified quarantine measures to put off the possible second wave. It also encourages whoever was in the same itineraries with the already confirmed patients to come forward to have a test.

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 has been in a good control over the novel coronavirus outbreak as it has only 12 confirmed positive cases while 4 of them discharged from the hospital.

 Out of the 12 confirmed cases, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 7th are fully recovered and released from in-bed care by the authority.

 The most unique patient is the No. 1, a naval soldier in his 20s, as he spent about a month getting over the virus, and tested postive again while being closely monitored after discharged from the hospital. The second confirmation was not as vivid as the first, but the local governmnet is keeping an eye on his condition.

 The one point to be noticed is that Jeju has more confirmed patients who returned to Jeju from studying abroad like the other citied in Korea. No. 7 to 12 are the cases except for No. 11, who is a family to No. 9. Considering No. 5 & 6 tested positive after coming back from taking a language course in Spain, all the infections in Jeju seem to have foreign origins.

 This makes me wonder what keep Jeju from getting community-acquired infection. Is it the government control, the cooperation of local people, or the clean and comparatively wet environment of Jeju?

 The 1st patient who was confirmed positive for the novel coronavirus is almost ready to leave hospital very soon, Dr. Bae Jong-myon, Director of the Jeju Center for Infection Diseases and Prevention(JeCI), disclosed on Thursady.

 He told reporters that the patient, who is a soldier, has shown improvement and he will be discharged sooner or later. But, the 4th has to wait till next week to make a final decision.

 The soldier was tested positive on February 20th after visiting Daegu, the epicenter of the mass infection in Korea. The 4th one was diagnosed of contamination on March 4th with the same reason.

 As of the midnight March 18th, Jeju has run 35 cases. 59 people have done self-isolation.