전국 첫 교내 전파... 대전 초등학교 2명 확진 및 광주 코로나 확산 우려<br /><br />While most recent COVID-19 cases have been concentrated around Seoul and its surrounding areas, other cities are now showing an increase in infections.<br />There has also been the first case of transmission between students at their school.<br />Kim Do-yeon starts us off.<br />The first local cases of COVID-19 transmission within a school were reported on Tuesday.<br />Two elementary school students in the central city of Daejeon were infected as a confirmed fifth grader had reportedly 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 shared the same gym as the first student.<br />That first student is believed to have come into contact with more than 150 students.<br />All of them and the other fifth graders in the school 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 will close 14 elementary and middle schools in the surrounding area and resume home schooling until August.<br />In the southwest of the country, the city of Gwangju has recorded a double-digit number of new cases for the first time.<br />The city, which had previously seen less than 50 cases in total before this spike, reported 12 new cases on Wednesday.<br />Authorities have pointed toward a local temple and door-to-door sales company for the reason behind the spike.<br />The country as a whole reported 51 new cases on Wednesday.<br />The total stands at 12,850... with the death toll remaining at 282.<br />Kim Do-yeon, Arirang News.<br />
