Church at centre of South Korea's Covid-19 resurgence says it will sue Seoul over contact tracing


The latest outbreak among worshippers at the Sarang Jeil Church is the second-biggest cluster of Covid-19 in Korea. - Reuters

SEOUL (The Korea Herald/ANN): The church at the centre of South Korea's coronavirus resurgence has said that it will sue the Seoul Metropolitan Government for enforcing contact tracing.

Representatives of the Sarang Jeil Church last Friday (Aug 21) said at a press conference outside the church in Seongbuk, a district in northern Seoul, that the police, under the direction of the city office,"forcibly entered the church" in trying to obtain information for contact tracing last Thursday.

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