SEOUL — The National Assembly of South Korea shut down its facilities and canceled all meetings scheduled for Thursday following a positive COVID-19 test by a beat reporter. According to the National Assembly Secretariat, a photo reporter who covered a meeting of the Supreme Council of the ruling Democratic Party Korea on Wednesday morning received a positive test result later in the day. Contact tracing procedures by epidemiologists of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began Thursday to decide when the National Assembly should reopen. This is the second time the National Assembly has closed its facilities due to the coronavirus. The detection of the virus also created uncertainty over the opening of the regular session of the National Assembly, slated for Sept. 1.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 27, 2020 09:33 UTC