Cluster transmission of COVID-19 in Seoul infects at least 64 people

좁은 공간서 종일 통화 '콜센터' 비상…서울 최대 집단감염

South Korea is on alert for COVID-19 infections in clusters.
The latest involved more than 60 people related to call center workers for an insurance company.
Eum Ji-young starts us off with the biggest group infection the capital has seen.
The pace of new infections across South Korea has been slowing down, and the focus is now on containing cluster infections.
According to Seoul City on Tuesday, at least 64 people related to a building in the Gurogu-district of southwestern Seoul have tested positive for the virus.
"Most of the people who tested positive are workers at a call center in this building."
The number of confirmed cases has been increasing since Tuesday morning and is expected to rise further in the next few hours...as test results come back for those people who had contact with the confirmed patients.
The first case from the call center, a 56-year-old female, was confirmed as positive on Sunday.
The building was then shut down and disinfected late Monday.
Health authorities have called on all 207 people who work at the call center, and all residents in the building, to self-quarantine.
The 19-floor building has offices and commercial facilities on its 12 lower floors and 140 residential units on the top seven floors.
A screening center has been set up on the first floor for people from this building to be tested.
The election camp of the ruling Democratic Party's candidate for the Gurogu district in next month's elections, Yoon Conn-young, is also in the building.
Yoon tested negative but will be in self-quarantine for 2 weeks.
The city government is to inspect buildings with similar work environments and encourage owners of those businesses, including karaoke rooms or dance clubs, to close down temporarily.
According to the Central Disease Control Headquarters, about 80 percent of the cases in the country are from cluster transmissions.
Meanwhile, the number of confirmed cases in South Korea stands at 7-thousand-513, with 131 new cases on Monday.
There were also six more fatalities on Tuesday, bringing the death toll in the country to 60.
Eum Ji-young Arirang News.

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