[속보] Eumseong Hope Hospital confirmed patients flee after transfer to Seoul… Police tracking

Corona 19 material photo. Central photo

– A new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) confirmed escaped from Eumseong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do to a hospital in Seoul on the 20th, and the police began to pursue it.

According to the police and fire departments, A (58), who was transferred to the National Mental Health Center in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, dressed in patient clothes at Somang Hospital in Eumseong-gun, at 1 pm on the same day, took a taxi in front of the center’s main gate and escaped.

The police have a patrol officer nearby to track Mr. A.

The Eumseong Health Center said, “We sent 4 confirmed patients of Somang Hospital to the National Mental Health Center on the 18th, and today we divided 12 people into 6 buses and departed sequentially from the firefighting hospital at around 11am. We handed over to the National Mental Health Center at around 12pm. Situation”.

“After taking over, I know that one person escaped, but the exact situation was not known. This hospital is a hospital in which a person with mental illness was admitted.”

Meanwhile, according to Eumseong-gun, a total of 36 patients and employees were diagnosed with Corona 19 at Eumseong Fire Hospital as of the 19th.

Reporter Flood-min and Choi Jong-kwon [email protected]



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