FILE PHOTO: City employees work at Incheon city’s coronavirus response command center in Incheon, South Korea, December 18, 2020. Picture taken December 18, 2020. REUTERS/Heo Ran
INCHEON/SUWON, South Korea (Reuters) - On the fourth floor of the Incheon city hall, South Korean epidemiological investigator Jang Hanaram's office is stuffed with six desks, two folding cots, and a table strewn with instant noodles, energy drinks and digestive aids.
Jang is one of six staffers who work 24-hour shifts in the cramped space, frantically tracing and contacting potential coronavirus cases in South Korea's third largest city as the country battles its largest wave of infections yet.
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