(Breaking News) 24th COVID-19 Confirmed Case in Yongin City...Another Imported Case?

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun Reporter] The 24th confirmed COVID-19 case has been reported in Yongin City. The case involves a resident (Yongin-24) who returned to Korea after staying in the UK, drawing attention to whether this is another imported case.

Yongin City announced on the 19th that Mr. Af (Yongin-24), a resident of Dongbu Centrevil Apartment Complex 1-dan in Shinbong-dong, Suji-gu, tested positive at GC Genentech Diagnostic Testing, a private testing agency, following specimen collection at the Suji-gu Health Center screening clinic the previous day.

Mr. Af stayed in the UK from December 12 of last year and returned home on the 14th. He reportedly began showing symptoms including cough, sore throat, and muscle pain starting from the 15th.

In response, the city requested the assignment of an isolation hospital bed from Gyeonggi Province and conducted emergency disinfection around Mr. Af's residence.

Upon Mr. Af's transfer, the city plans to collect specimens from Mr. Af's parents and conduct disinfection inside the residence.

Previously, Ms. Ae (Yongin-23), a family member of the Yongin-outside-2 patient residing at Spa Palais Riga Apartment in Eonnam-ro, Giheung-gu, tested positive for COVID-19 in a test conducted before self-quarantine release.

Ms. Ae was confirmed to have had final contact with the Yongin-outside-2 patient at Bundang Jesaeng Hospital on March 5 and tested negative during a diagnostic test on the 6th while in self-quarantine. However, after maintaining self-quarantine, specimen collection for retesting before quarantine release was conducted the previous day, and she tested positive in an examination by the Gyeonggi Province Health and Environmental Research Institute.

In response, the city requested the designation of isolation hospital beds from Gyeonggi Province and conducted emergency disinfection around Ms. Ae's residence.

Ms. Ae's spouse tested negative in diagnostic tests conducted on both the 6th and 18th.

The city plans to isolate additional contacts as epidemiological investigation results become available and conduct additional disinfection of movement routes.

Meanwhile, the funeral for Ms. Ae's father, who was transferred from Bundang Jesaeng Hospital to Myeongji Hospital in Goyang City and died on the 11th during treatment, is scheduled to take place on the 20th. Ms. Ae's mother (Yongin-outside-3) has been receiving treatment at Seongnam Medical Center since the 6th.