1. ‘No islanders came into contact with MERS patient’
Seoul man tested positive for illness

Local authorities say they have determined that no Jeju Islanders came into contact with a 61-year-old Seoul man who has tested positive for MERS.

The provincial government says it checked the roughly 440 passengers who had taken the same flight as the man as well as the 22 people who had come into relatively close contact with him and found no islanders on either list.

Local officials have upgraded the island’s MERS advisory level and will inspect Jeju National University Hospital, which is a nationally-designated quarantine center for the illness.

A special squad, led by the director of the health, welfare, and women’s department, has been formed to direct the island’s prevention efforts. It began work Sunday.

제주도민 메르스 접촉 없어…'주의' 격상

60대 서울 거주 남성이 메르스 확진 판정을 받은 가운데 해당 남성과 접촉한 제주도민은 없는 것으로 파악됐습니다.

제주특별자치도는 해당 남성이 이용했던 항공기 탑승객 440여 명과 밀착접촉자 22명을 확인한 결과 현재까지 제주도민은 없다고 밝혔습니다.

제주도는 메르스 위기경보를 주의 단계로 격상하고 메르스 국가지정 격리병원인 제주대병원도 사전 점검할 계획입니다.

아울러 보건복지여성국장을 반장으로 하는 제주도 방역대책반도 9일 부터 가동에 들어갔습니다.