Source: Overseas Network
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Seoul Itaewon region (Photo: Yonhap News Agency )
[Overseas Network May 22 | Fighting the Epidemic Full Time Zone] According to Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean Central Epidemic Prevention Headquarters stated on the 22nd that based on the results of genomic analysis of cases of new coronavirus infection, it is speculated that the virus that caused cluster infection in Itaewon nightclub in Seoul is likely to be from Europe and the United States at first.
Jin, director of the South Korean Central Epidemic Prevention Countermeasures Headquarters, said at a regular press conference that day that the analysis of the new coronavirus samples of 151 infected people found that the virus base sequence of the Itaewon infected people was consistent, and it was speculated to be the same source of infection, and it belonged to the G-type new coronavirus as recent inflows from Europe and the United States. Therefore, these cases are more likely to be infected by European and American entrants.
The World Health Organization divides the new coronavirus into three types: S-type, V-type and G-type according to the difference in base sequence, among which G-type is mainly popular in Europe and the United States.
Specifically, the analytical samples include 30 cases in the early stage of the epidemic in South Korea, 32 cases in the Shincheonji Daegu church, 11 cases in the Tainan Hospital of Cheongdo, North Gyeongsang Province, 41 imported cases and 14 cases in Itaewong-related cases. Among them, G-type new coronavirus was found in 14 cases in Itaewon, V-type virus was found in 67 cases in church-related cases, and S-type virus was found in 24 cases in Korean overseas Chinese. In addition, viruses that do not belong to the above three types have also appeared in confirmed cases related to Japan and Singapore.
Yonhap News Agency reported that the South Korean Central Epidemic Prevention Countermeasures Headquarters reported on the 22nd that as of 0:00 on the same day, South Korea had 20 new confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia compared with 0:00 on the previous day, with a total of 11,142 confirmed cases. Among them, there are 207 confirmed patients related to collective infection in Itaewon nightclub. So far, a total of 77,000 relevant personnel have undergone nucleic acid testing.
The person in charge of the South Korean epidemic prevention department said that the cluster epidemic in nightclubs has not spread sharply and is becoming stable, but due to the "four infections" and the number of confirmed cases spread all over the country, the tension in prevention and control cannot be relaxed. (Overseas Network Zhang Min)