December 30th According to a Yonhap news agency on the 30th, two new cases of mutant COVID-19 infection in South Korea were imported from the United Kingdom, including a man in his 80s and a woman in his 20s.
A total of 5 cases of mutant COVID-19 infection have been reported in South Korea.
It is reported that the man in his 80s died of a sudden heart disease after entering South Korea from the United Kingdom.
After his death, he was diagnosed with mutant novel coronavirus. Another woman in her 20s also entered the United Kingdom and was tested at the airport.
She was diagnosed with mutant COVID-19.
According to an earlier report by South Korean media, on December 28, the Central Anti-epidemic Response Headquarters of South Korea said that the variant strain of the novel coronavirus was detected from three people entering the United Kingdom.