(Breaking) Suwon's 111th COVID-19 Confirmed Case...South Korean Returning from Guatemala

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] The city of Suwon announced on the 30th that the 111th COVID-19 confirmed case had occurred.

The confirmed case is a South Korean man in his 40s residing in Gosaek Taisan 2nd Apartments in Gosaek-dong, Gwonseon-gu, who entered the country from Guatemala on the 26th. He began coughing the next day and tested positive after screening at the Gwonseon-gu Health Center screening clinic on the 29th, then was transferred to Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center Suwon Hospital.

The city explained that the confirmed case, as an overseas entrant, was classified as a subject of mandatory self-isolation because he was asymptomatic during the special entry procedure at Incheon International Airport. The city added that he tested positive as a result of specimen collection within three days during the self-isolation period.

"COVID-19. Suwon's Response 560"

※ This confirmed case is an overseas entrant who was asymptomatic during the special entry procedure at Incheon International Airport and was subject to mandatory self-isolation. As a subject of COVID-19 diagnostic testing within three days of entry, specimen collection was performed during the self-isolation period, resulting in a 'positive' determination.

○ Information regarding 'Suwon confirmed case-111'

- 40s, South Korean, residing in Gosaek Taisan 2nd Apartments, Gosaek-dong, Gwonseon-gu

- Initial symptom onset: Cough (7.27.)

- Presumed infection route: Overseas entrant (entered from 'Guatemala' on 7.26.)

- Specimen collection: Gwonseon-gu Health Center screening clinic (7.29.)

- Hospital admission: Transfer to Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center Suwon Hospital scheduled (7.29.)

※ Information regarding locations where contact cases occurred and the status of contacts will be announced promptly upon completion of in-depth epidemiological investigation.

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