{"id":1415679,"date":"2022-04-01T22:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T02:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415679"},"modified":"2022-04-01T22:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T02:44:49","slug":"report-south-korean-police-indict-countrys-first-omicron-patient-for-lying-in-virus-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-south-korean-police-indict-countrys-first-omicron-patient-for-lying-in-virus-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: South Korean Police Indict Country&#039;s First Omicron Patient for &#039;Lying&#039; in Virus Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-south-korean-police-indict-countrys-first-omicron-patient-for-lying-in-virus-survey%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415679&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">South Korea\u2019s first reported patient of the Chinese coronavirus\u2019s omicron strain was allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20220401004200315?section=national\/national\">indicted<\/a> in recent days \u201cfor lying to health authorities\u201d in an epidemiological survey associated with her November 2021 infection, South Korea\u2019s Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Yonhap cited unnamed South Korean legal sources who provided the news outlet with an alleged account of the woman\u2019s recent path to criminal indictment. The news outlet on April 1 detailed the series of events, writing:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The 40-something woman living in Incheon, 40 kilometers west of Seoul, was charged without detention for allegedly violating the [South Korea] Infectious Disease Control Act by lying about her transportation use when questioned by local authorities after testing positive for omicron on November 25 [2021].<\/p>\n<p>The woman and her husband, a church pastor, had previously traveled to Nigeria before testing positive for the virus variant in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>She allegedly lied to authorities about taking a quarantine taxi after arriving at Incheon International Airport, when she was actually driven home by an acquaintance. The acquaintance\u2019s wife and mother in law were later found to have caused a cluster infection at a large church.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>South Korean police have previously indicted a number of citizens and residents of the country for allegedly committing similar acts of violation of the nation\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/elaw.klri.re.kr\/eng_mobile\/ganadaDetail.do?hseq=37239&#038;type=abc&#038;key=INFECTIOUS%20DISEASE%20CONTROL%20AND%20PREVENTION%20ACT&#038;param=I\">Infectious Disease Control Act<\/a> during the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, which began in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Incheon police <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20200720002600315\">arrested<\/a> a 24-year-old man in July 2020 \u201con charges of violating the law on prevention and control of infectious diseases, and sent the case to the prosecution saying he should be indicted,\u201d Yonhap reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police in the port city accused the man of failing to cooperate with the contact tracing efforts of local authorities and thus worsening a local outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus in Incheon at the time. The man allegedly told state-sponsored contact tracers \u2014 or people who trace the whereabouts of confirmed or suspected Chinese coronavirus patients \u2014 that he was unemployed at the time \u201cand did not report that he taught at a cram school [tutoring facility] in Incheon,\u201d according to Yonhap.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLocal health authorities, who were dubious of his report, asked the police to secure his mobile phone records, which delayed the tracing process that could have prevented additional infections,\u201d the Seoul-based news agency revealed.<\/p>\n<p>While reporting on\u00a0South Korea\u2019s anti-coronavirus effort in October 2020, the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/19\/world\/asia\/south-korea-covid-19-online-bullying.html\">observed<\/a>\u00a0that police officers nationwide had, at the time,\u00a0\u201casked prosecutors to indict 13 people accused of providing false information, including several who lied to epidemiological investigators about their health or the places they visited while potentially carrying the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean federal government has granted itself extraordinary powers to violate the privacy of individual citizens in the name of contact tracing during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to making some personal data public, the authorities sometimes use it to send text messages to people whose cellular data history indicates they were in proximity to an infected person. Other than China, South Korea is virtually the only country in the world whose government has the power to collect such data at will during an epidemic,\u201d the <em>New York Times<\/em> revealed in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the initial desperate months of the pandemic, [South Korean] government websites uploaded a detailed sketch of each patient\u2019s daily life until they were diagnosed and isolated. The government did not reveal patients\u2019 names but sometimes released revealing data such as their addresses and employers,\u201d the newspaper detailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s first reported patient of the Chinese coronavirus\u2019s omicron strain was allegedly indicted in recent days \u201cfor lying to health authorities\u201d in an epidemiological survey associated with her November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}