BTS: three members of South Korean K-pop group tested positive for Covid-19

They will spend the end of the year isolated.

Three members of BTS, a famous South Korean K-pop group, tested positive for Covid-19 on their return from the United States, where they gave concerts on stage for the first time since the start of the pandemic , their producer announced on Saturday.

Rapper RM and singer Jin tested positive on Saturday night, Big Hit Music reported.

The day before, the company had reported that Suga, another member of the group which has seven, was "taking care of him at home" after testing positive.

RM and Suga are asymptomatic while Jin has a mild fever, the agency added, noting that all three were fully immunized.

Contaminated after vacation

The South Korean group had given in Los Angeles (United States), from the end of November to the beginning of December, its first concerts by being physically present on stage since the start of the pandemic.

The artists had since been on vacation, and the three band members who were infected returned to South Korea on different dates.

None of them have had any contact with the other members of the group since their return to South Korea.

RM and Suga received their positive test results while still in quarantine after returning home.

Jin was released from solitary confinement after testing negative but later tested positive.

Big Hit Music has ensured that it places the "highest priority on the health and safety" of artists.

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In 2020, BTS climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, America's Most Popular Song Chart, with their single "Dynamite", becoming the first South Korean group to top this chart.

Both the United States and South Korea are facing an increase in cases of contamination amid the global spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant.