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TWO COVID-19 infections have been reported from the ongoing Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN), with South Korea struggling with the recent surge in cases.
The event’s organisers said on Thursday, that one visitor tested positive for the virus after attending an outdoor event last Friday. BIFAN kicked off on July 8, in Bucheon, just west of Seoul.
Local health authorities said they had kept close tabs on other participants in the event, but no further infection had been reported yet.
In addition, an official from the festival’s technical service team was diagnosed with COVID-19 last Saturday.
The BIFAN organisers said all people who worked with the official got tested and received negative results.
“Except for the two cases, we have found no further infections. But we’ve been asking all visitors to receive virus tests just as a precautionary measure,” an official from the film festival said.
BIFAN, South Korea’s largest annual genre film festival, has canceled or changed most of its scheduled offline events online since Monday as South Korea’s toughest social distancing took effect in the greater Seoul area.
The country has seemingly entered the fourth wave of the pandemic, reporting about 1,600 daily new coronavirus cases for the past few days.
The festival closes Thursday, but its online screening will run through July 18, via local online streamer Waver. (Yonhap/NAN)
– July 15, 2021 @ 11:20 GMT
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