42 USFK Personnel PCSing or Returning from Leave Test Positive for Coronavirus

USFK continues to do a great job catching people infected with the coronavirus when they arrive in Korea:

Forty-two people affiliated with the U.S. military, including 37 service members, have tested positive for the new coronavirus upon their arrival in South Korea, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said Monday.

Of the total, eight service members and a dependent arrived at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of Seoul, on government-chartered flights while 29 service members, a civilian and three dependents arrived here on commercial flights via Incheon International Airport, west of the capital, according to the U.S. military.

They all arrived between Dec. 28 and Friday.

All of them have been transferred to isolation facilities for COVID-19 patients at the U.S. military bases in South Korea. 

“The high number of USFK-affiliated confirmed with COVID-19 was due to the normal individual relocation moves to USFK, as well as those returning to USFK from off-peninsula over the Christmas and New Year holiday period,” a USFK official said, stressing that “none of the new arrivals have interacted with anyone residing within USFK installations or the local community.”

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but it is pretty impressive that USFK has not had one cluster infection occur during this entire pandemic.