등교 첫날 코로나 변수발생…인천•안성 75개교 귀가•등교 중지<br /><br />On the day South Korean students started going back to class,... nearly half of the schools in the city of Incheon sent their students home before lunch time.<br />That was because two students in quarantine were confirmed to be infected, so there was a risk there might be others.<br />Our Lee Kyung-eun reports.<br />On "back to school day", high school seniors in Incheon had to go back home.<br />A total of 66 of the city's schools nearly half of them decided to close less than halfway through the first day.<br />This includes schools in the hardest hit district of Michuhol-gu, and it's not been decided when they will reopen.<br />On Thursday, when seniors across the country take a periodic standardized exam, these students will take it online.<br />The health ministry said it was a preemptive measure to prevent an outbreak among students.<br />"This morning, two high school students from Incheon who were in self-quarantine were confirmed to be infected. So before students go to school, the city's education office decided to take this preemptive measure after consulting with the education ministry."<br />The two students caught the virus at a singing booth, or noraebang, in Michuhol-gu District.<br />In recent weeks, that noraebang has become ground zero in the city.<br />A local teacher contracted the virus at a nightclub in the Seoul neighborhood of Itaewon, brought it to Incheon and infected six of his students, one of whom went to the noraebang.<br />That led to the infection of six other noraebang customers... plus a man who went to a PC cafe in the same building and touched a contaminated elevator button.<br />This cluster led to at least one other infection that one four degrees separated from the nightclubs.<br />Through multiple degrees of transmission, a total of 27 cases have been reported in Incheon that are linked to the academy teacher.<br />In the nearby city of Anseong, 9 schools were also shut down for the day.<br />Lee Kyung-eun, Arirang News.<br />
