BTS’s RM and Jin also test positive for COVID-19

Two members of the South Korean K-Pop band BTS, RM and Jin have tested positive for covid-19, their record company reported today just a day after announcing that another member, Suga, has also been infected.

Big Hit Music detailed in a statement that RM, the group’s leader, returned from the US -where the group gave several concerts in November and where several of its members later spent a few days on vacation – last December 17 and underwent a mandatory PCR test after landing in which it was negative.

However, in the test he underwent today in order to finish with the mandatory ten-day quarantine that is required of everyone who enters South Korean territory, RM, 27 years old and whose real name is Kim Nam-joon, tested positive.

For his part, Jin returned from the US on December 6 and tested negative in the two tests that were carried out at the beginning and end of his mandatory quarantine.

However, the artist, whose real name is Kim Seok-jin, underwent PCR today after experimenting with “flu-like” symptoms and it tested positive.

While RM “is not showing any particular symptoms,” Jin, 29, shows “mild symptoms, including a slight fever,” according to the Big Hit Music statement.

Both, like Suga, received the second dose of the vaccine last August and they are “undergoing self-care at home in accordance with the regulations of the health authorities.”

“None of the (BTS) members had any contact with other members after returning to Korea,” the label’s writing states.

The group consisting of RM, Jimin, V, Suga, Jin, J-Hope and Jungkook offered four concerts in Los Angeles at the end of November, in which they were their first performances with public since the end of 2019.

BTS also announced a face-to-face concert in Seoul for next March, in which it would be their first performance in their country in more than two years, provided that the pandemic allows it. (I)