[전국]A taxi from Seoul to Cheongju… caught in 2 hours after a confirmed escape

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A case of escape occurred while a corona19 confirmed person was being transferred to a hospital in Seoul.

I ran from Seoul to Cheongju in a taxi and got caught in two hours.

The quarantine authorities began to identify contacts.

This is Na Hyun-ho.

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Around 1 o’clock in the afternoon.

An ambulance carrying a confirmed COVID-19 patient enters the National Mental Health Center in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul.

While waiting for a while in the underground parking lot, a patient unfastened his belt and ran out of the ambulance.

It happened while an paramedic was going through the patient takeover procedure.

The escaped patient was A, a 58-year-old woman,

I went out to the front door and immediately took a taxi and disappeared.

A, who was undergoing psychiatric hospital treatment at the Eumseong Somang Hospital in Chungbuk, where dozens of infected people were found, was being transferred to Seoul after being confirmed on the 18th.

The police, who checked the CCTV and started tracking, caught Mr. A in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do within two hours.

The taxi driver, who wondered about the gibberish, drove to the police district.

The quarantine authorities plan to move Mr. A back to the National Mental Health Center for quarantine hospitalization.

In addition, we plan to conduct a diagnostic test by identifying the contacted people including the taxi driver who moved to Cheongju with Mr.

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