Cluster Infection at Busan Sasang-gu Church... 18 Worshippers and Visitors Confirmed Positive

Sasang-gu Health Center Suspends Operations... One Administrative Staff Classified as Contact of Confirmed Case, Contact Employees Excluded from Work

On the 1st, citizens who were notified as testing targets are waiting to get tested for COVID-19 in front of the Buk-gu Public Health Center in Busan.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] A cluster infection occurred at a church in Sasang-gu, Busan on the 1st.

On that day at 11 a.m., as 46 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Busan, 18 people who had contact at the Sasang-gu church tested positive.

However, the Sasang-gu Public Health Center has suspended all operations except for the screening clinic as one administrative department employee was classified as a close contact of a COVID-19 confirmed case and is awaiting test results.

According to Busan health authorities on the 1st, 28 people who had contact with Busan case number 786 tested positive for COVID-19. Among them, 18 were confirmed to have been infected through contact at the same church.

Busan city health authorities conducted a full investigation last weekend targeting the church’s congregants and visitors.

Busan case number 786 was confirmed positive on the 29th as a contact of a confirmed case in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul.

Although more than 20 confirmed cases emerged in Sasang-gu alone, the Sasang-gu Public Health Center’s operations have been suspended, causing significant inconvenience.

One employee from the health administration department of this public health center was classified as a contact of a confirmed case and is awaiting test results.

Sasang-gu excluded all employees who had contact with this employee from work and temporarily suspended the public health center’s operations. The screening clinic at the Sasang-gu Public Health Center is currently operating normally.