SEOUL: South Korean authorities were combing through mobile phone data, credit card statements and CCTV footage on Tuesday (May 12) to identify people who visited nightclubs at the centre of one of the capital's biggest Covid-19 (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.
"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. 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.
Human rights group Amnesty International said some media outlets were making the authorities' prevention and disinfection measures more difficult by pointing fingers at a"certain group” of patients. South Korea's first openly gay TV host and restaurant owner, Hong Seok-cheon, uploaded a picture of an Itaewon subway station sign on his Instagram account and urged the LGBTQ members to get tested.
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