전국 첫 교내 전파…대전 초등학교서 확진자 동급생 2명 확진<br /><br />Two elementary students in central South Korea have contracted COVID-19 marking the first confirmed instance of coronavirus transmission within the nation's school system.<br />Local health authorities say they had come into contact with a fellow student who had the virus.<br />Kim Do-yeon reports.<br />The first local cases of COVID-19 transmission within a school were reported on Tuesday.<br />According to the city of Daejeon, two elementary school students were infected as a confirmed student had been attending the school for three days in late June.<br />One is a classmate of the first student... and authorities say they were regularly in close contact.<br />The other student is in a different class, but is believed to have shared the same gym as the first student.<br />All three are fifth graders, which was one of the grades that returned to school last after other grades had restarted.<br />Quarantine authorities have decided to test all of the school's fifth graders.<br />The first confirmed student is believed to have come into contact with more than 150 students.<br />All of them are due to be tested.<br />The first student was confirmed to have COVID-19 on Monday.<br />Officials say he caught it off another family member.<br />The brother of the student, who is in the third grade of middle school, has been confirmed to have the virus as well.<br />The city of Daejeon has ordered over 100 large private academies and after school venues to close.<br />The city will also close 14 elementary and middle schools in the surrounding area and resume home schooling for the students until August.<br />Kim Do-yeon, Arirang News.<br />
