50s Korean Male Confirmed with Wuhan Pneumonia...Total 4 Cases (Update)

Medical personnel dispatched to Wuhan, China, are preparing to board a train at Nanjing South Station in Jiangsu Province on the 25th.

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Dae-yeol] The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on the 27th that it has confirmed the fourth confirmed case of the novel coronavirus infection (Wuhan pneumonia).

The patient is a 55-year-old Korean man who visited Wuhan City in Hubei, China, and returned to Korea on the 20th, the KCDC reported. On the following day, the 21st, he visited a domestic medical institution with a cold and received treatment, and then on the 25th, he returned to the hospital with high fever and muscle pain. After reporting to the public health center, he was under active monitoring, and on the 26th, his muscle pain worsened, leading to a pneumonia diagnosis at the public health center's screening clinic, classifying him as a symptomatic patient.

Later that day, he was isolated at Bundang Seoul National University Hospital, which has a nationally designated inpatient treatment bed, and underwent testing. He was confirmed as the fourth infected patient that morning. The KCDC stated that it is conducting an in-depth epidemiological investigation following the patient's movement path. Previously, after a Chinese woman in her 30s who entered the country on the 19th was confirmed as a patient the next day, confirmed cases have continued to appear on the 24th, 26th, and today.