Over 40 Migrant Workers Test Positive for COVID in Gangneung

I wonder if living conditions has anything to do with this spread of COVID-19 in Gangneung among migrant workers?:

Foreign migrant workers take coronavirus tests in a temporary testing station in Gangneung on the South Korean east coast on May 3, 2021. (Yonhap)

 More than 40 foreign migrant workers in the east coast city of Gangneung tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday after preemptive coronavirus testing, municipal officials said.

The municipality of Gangneung, 240 kilometers east of Seoul, has so far conducted the preemptive testing on 743 migrant workers and 43 of them were diagnosed with the new coronavirus, the officials said.

By nationality, Russians accounted for 36 of the confirmed cases, with the others from Central Asian nations, they noted.

Yonhap

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