Yonhap News Agency on December 28th, the South Korean government announced on Monday that it would extend the suspension of flights with the United Kingdom for one week.
Earlier, in response to the coronavirus mutation in the United Kingdom, South Korea announced that it would suspend flights with the United Kingdom from December 23 to December 31.
South Korea’s health department confirmed Monday that the country found its first cases of mutant novel coronavirus, three South Korean citizens who arrived in South Korea from the United Kingdom last week.
According to a report by Korean Radio International on the 28th, an elderly man from the United Kingdom who entered South Korea was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus after death.
A total of three family members who entered with him and before him were also diagnosed with the virus. The health department is investigating whether they were also infected with the mutant novel coronavirus.
