Let’s go straight to Beijing.
Correspondent Park Seong-hoon,’A mutant virus from the UK’ has also been confirmed in China, right?
[기자]
On the 14th of last month, a 23-year-old Chinese student who entered the Shanghai airport from the UK was confirmed to be infected with a mutant virus from the UK.
The date I was confirmed confirmed was on the 24th, 10 days later.
This woman was tested negative in England on the 12th, two days before entering China.
However, it is said that he jogged in the park with his mask off and waited in the airport without wearing a mask.
At that time, the British mutant virus was rapidly spreading.
[앵커]
I was confirmed on the 24th of last month, has the Chinese government not disclosed it in the meantime?
[기자]
The Chinese authorities weren’t making an official announcement, but it was revealed late in a weekly report that the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted in English yesterday (30th).
On the 24th of last month, when the mutant virus was first identified in China, let’s listen to an explanation from a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
[왕원빈/중국 외교부 대변인 (2020년 12월 24일) : 변이 바이러스의 특수성과 예상되는 영향을 고려해 충분한 평가를 거쳐 중국은 영국과의 왕복 항공편을 중단하기로 했습니다.]
It does not mention the influx of the mutant virus, only the flight interruption.
It means that we hid the confirmation of the mutant virus for almost a week and did not voluntarily disclose it.
This is a more difficult part to understand considering that the spread of mutant viruses is about 70% higher than that of existing viruses.
[앵커]
I heard it well. Correspondents Lim Jong-ju, Yoon Seol-young, and Park Seong-hoon have delivered.
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