On the morning of the 6th, citizens line up to be tested at the screening test center at Juan Station in Michuhol-gu, Incheon. yunhap news.
In Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, a new mutant virus, Omicron, was infected and an emergency was raised. The confirmed person was confirmed as a visitor to a church in Incheon, where Omicron infections were concentrated.
According to the city of Ansan on the 6th, one middle school student in the district who attended a church service in Michuhol-gu, Incheon was confirmed with omicron mutation.
After attending a service at this church on the 28th of last month, this student was diagnosed with Corona in Ansan on the 2nd. As the number of infected people came one after another centering on visitors to the church, the virus analysis received later confirmed the diagnosis of the omicron mutation.
It was found that the student did not show any symptoms from the 29th, the day after attending the service, to the 1st, and returned to school. After that, on the afternoon of the 1st, fever symptoms appeared, and after returning home, he did not go to school.
Ansan City switched the entire school to remote classes until the 15th, and all students in the same class were self-quarantined. As of this morning, it was reported that all of the tests on the student’s family and contacts had been negative.
As of this day, the number of confirmed cases of Omicron in Korea is 12, and in Gyeonggi-do, there are three including two women who have been to Nigeria and one middle school student in Ansan.
Jong-goo Lee reporter minjung@hankookilbo.com
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