The number of COVID-19 infections linked to a logistics center in Gyeonggi Province is on the rise.

At a press briefing on Wednesday, Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip said as of 9:00 a.m., 36 people in connection to the Bucheon distribution center have tested positive for the virus and that the number is expected to increase.

Authorities have begun testing some three-thousand-600 people that work at the logistics center.

Kim said workers at the particular facility run by e-commerce operator Coupang are not believed to have followed basic quarantine guidelines, adding that an epidemiological study is underway.