Posted on 05/12/2020 8:25:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean authorities were combing through mobile phone data, credit card statements and CCTV footage on Tuesday to identify people who visited nightclubs at the centre of one of the capital’s biggest novel coronavirus clusters.
More than 100 new cases linked to the nightclubs have brought fears of a second wave of infections in a country held up as a coronavirus mitigation success story.
Health authorities have tracked and tested thousands of people linked to the nightclubs and bars in Seoul’s Itaewon nightlife neighbourhood, but want to find others who they have not been able to identify.
Authorities fear that the fact some of the establishments were known as gay bars might be putting people off coming forward for testing in a country where homosexuality is for many people still taboo.
“We are using telecom station information and credit card transactions from the nightclubs to identify 1,982 of those who are not available,” health ministry official Yoon Tae-ho told a briefing.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) on Tuesday said at least 102 people have tested positive in connection with the cases linked to nightclubs and bars.
Seoul mayor Park Won-soon said 7,272 people had been tested in connection with the cluster, including family members or coworkers of clubgoers.
Officials had identified 10,905 people who were in the Itaewon area when the cluster of cases is believed to have got going this month, based on cell tower information, and another 494 who used credit cards, Park said.
Media outlets have identified the nightclubs the first patient visited as gay clubs, sparking concern that the disclosures and media coverage could out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people against their will or lead to discrimination.
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Just goes to show...wherever you find fags you find deadly viruses.
Gay or not, getting sweaty and dancing with 100s of other people indoors is a sure way to spread any disease. Those 100 or so UT kids that flew down to Mexico for Spring Break, at least 4 dozen of them came back infected and they mostly partied together.
RE: Those 100 or so UT kids that flew down to Mexico for Spring Break, at least 4 dozen of them came back infected and they mostly partied together.
What could have induced these kids to think that Mexico was Covid-19 safer than the USA?
The risk of “High Risk Behavior” is... High
I’m a motorcyclist, I understand high risk behavior, but my biking does not put other people at risk for death.
Can we all just imagine how this will go over if trap and trace ever becomes a reality in USA? Not sure there is a frequency for that high pitched squeal.
The Itaewon (”ee-tay-won”) bar district is adjacent to the US Army Yongsan Garrison in Seoul. It has long been a festering sewer, with its most prominent feature being known to GIs as “Hooker Hill.”
An 18 year old drinking age of course.
HiV never slowed them down and its fertility rate is near 100% Cobid is .1 percent. Is it really realistic to hope Homosexuals who are slaves to their lusts will suddenly act responsibly?
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