1,200 Olympics security guards withdrawn over norovirus outbreak

(6 Feb 2018) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY ++UPDATED SCRIPT SENT AT 0904GMT TO INCLUDE NAME OF PYEONGCHANG 2018 ORGANISING COMMITTEE SPOKESPERSON IN SHOT 14++ ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY Pyeongchang – 6 February 2018 1. Wide of people passing between caravans on Winter Olympic Games staff accommodation site 2. Gas bottle 3. Caravan site 4. Apartments for security workers 5. Police with facemasks 6. Rubbish 7. Security workers 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Park Jiae, security worker: "Actually 1500 people are living here during the Pyeongchang Olympics. And 36 people have the virus - Norovirus. Maybe. So they are separated in the hospital and separated caravans." 9. Security workers going to their apartments 10. Security workers 11. Feet in sandals 12. Various of security workers Pyeongchang – 6 February 2018 13. Wide of news conference 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Nancy Park, (POCOG) PyeongChang 2018 Organising Committee spokesperson: "Twelve hundred people. We we asked them not to be put back into the workforce and they are staying in isolation just because of the suspected cases. So everyone in that accommodation was isolated there, until we can confirm that this was not spread further. As soon as we got the reports of this case we worked with the Centre for Prevention of Disease Control (Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention) all together. We've been having a workforce, a task force to work together to do the measures and this has also been communicated to the stakeholders of the Olympic Games to make sure that everyone is aware of what is going on and the measures." 15. Wide of conference STORYLINE: More than 1,200 security guards who were due to work at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games have been put into quarantine after at least 36 personnel showed symptoms of the norovirus. POCOG, the local organising committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Games said 1,200 people staying in the affected accommodation had been asked to remain there. POCOG said on Tuesday that they would take part in a clinical test and everyone would be isolated "until we can confirm that this was not spread further," said a spokesperson. The Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and POCOG are working together to manage the situation. =========================================================== Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: [email protected] (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/2eddd48a9dfbf12196845957d343a936 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork