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Virus-hit Cheonghae unit arrives home
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July 21, 2021 12:36
All 301 crew of the destroyer Munmu the Great were flown back to Korea on Tuesday after a coronavirus outbreak on an anti-piracy mission off the Horn of Africa.
Some 266 of the contingent from the Navy s Cheonghae unit tested positive for COVID-19, including the captain and second-in-command.
The government said at least 14 members had to be hospitalized and three of them have serious symptoms. The remaining 287 were taken to isolation facilities.
Sailors of the Cheonghae unit wave from a bus to a quarantine facility at a military air base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province on Tuesday. /Yonhap
None had been vaccinated and all were living at close quarters on the ship, whose ventilation system alone acted like a perfect conduit for the virus.
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Their arrival comes less than week since confirmation of the unit s first COVID-19 patient. Depending on the severity of their symptoms, the crewmembers were sent to two military hospitals and two treatment facilities one military, the other civilian that are reserved for COVID-19 patients.
The crewmembers are being tested for the coronavirus again, and those that have tested negative will be transferred to a military facility for quarantine.
Defense Minister Suh Wook apologized for the mass infection in the Cheonghae Unit, cited as the biggest outbreak within a single military unit in South Korea so far, a predicament exacerbated by the fact that none of them had been vaccinated.