Gender：
male
Age：
28
Data Source：
manual
Continent：
Asia
Country：
South Korea
Location：
South Korea
Rank：
21
Count：
7157
Percentile：
0.29%
Description：
Case #24. (Index case, Korea) (Clinical progression of patient #24) Patient #24 is a 28-year-old male of Korean nationality. As one of the first round group of 368 Koreans who were evacuated from Wuhan on January 31, 2020, the patient was quarantined at the Asan Police Human Resources Development Institute. He tested negative for 2019-nCoV disease at the time of arrival at the facility. However, during his quarantine at the facility, the patient developed symptoms of sore throat on February 6, 2020 and was re-tested. As the result was positive, the patient was isolated in the National Medical Center at 9:00 p.m., on the same day. Patient #24 is a co-worker of patient #13, who traveled with the former, to Wuhan for business and was diagnosed with 2019-nCoV disease on February 2, 2020. Both shared a room during the business trip to Wuhan, travelled to Korea on the same chartered flight on January 31, 2020 and were transferred to the Asan Police Human Resources Development Institute in the same bus.
(Contacts of patient #24 and preventive measures for them) No one came into contact with patient #24 as he was quarantined on arrival in a single-bed room in the designated facility. However, as of February 7, 2020, additional tests are being conducted on the Koreans who took the same bus as patient #24, on January 31, 2020. Furthermore, two of the patient’s co-workers who have been quarantined in the same Asan facility, along with other business employees who had worked with them in China and are now in the same facility, will also be tested.
(Transmission of infection by patient #24) Epidemiologic investigation is currently ongoing, as of February 7, 2020.