[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Seul-gi] A cluster infection of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) occurred at a Makjujip (beer pub) in Daejeon.
According to Daejeon City on the 1st, a total of 11 people, including five friends in their 20s who gathered at this establishment and a regular customer couple, tested positive.
According to the city, confirmed cases 500 to 504 in Daejeon are people in their 20s living in Yuseong-gu, who held a gathering at a Makjujip in Gwanpyeong-dong, Yuseong-gu on the 23rd of last month.
Cases 500 to 503 began showing symptoms such as fever and headache on the 26th of last month, and case 504 on the 24th.
It was investigated that they spent time at a table next to confirmed cases 483, who tested positive on the 27th of last month, and 494, confirmed on the 29th.
Case 494 is a part-time worker at this pub.
The previously confirmed couple in their 50s from Gwanpyeong-dong (Daejeon cases 497 and 498) are also regular customers of this pub.
Case 499, a man in his 40s, is a colleague of this couple and showed symptoms such as muscle pain and cough on the 28th of last month.
The quarantine authorities are classifying and testing close contacts such as family members of the confirmed cases while accurately tracking their movements.
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