About 70 SK attendees of tech show test positive for Covid

SEOUL: About 70 South Korean nationals who attended the giant CES tech trade show in Las Vegas last week tested positive for Coronavirus (Covid-19), health authorities of the Asian country said recently.
These included some executives and staff of major South Korean companies, according to industry sources and one company.
About 20 people from Samsung Electronics and about six at SK Group, parent of energy firm SK Innovation and chipmaker SK Hynix, were among those who tested positive for the virus after attending CES, the sources said.
The cases risk dealing a blow to South Korea’s Covid-19 control, after the country had just brought down daily number of infections from record highs in December by restoring tough social distancing rules and widely adopting vaccine passports at public locations.
Hyundai Heavy Industries said six of its employees who attended CES tested positive while in the United States and were quarantined, and some have been released since.
“Multiple” Hyundai Motor and Hyundai Mobis employees who attended CES also tested positive after arriving back in South Korea, South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo reported, citing an unidentified industry source without specifying the exact number of cases.
About 70 attendees, all South Korean nationals, have tested positive for Covid-19 as of Tuesday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.
Some 340 South Korean companies participated in CES, it added. – Reuters