BTS members Suga, RM and Jin test positive for COVID

BTS member RM (provided by Big Hit Music)

RM and Jin of the K-pop group BTS recently tested positive for COVID-19.

This brings the total number of BTS members with the virus to three, with fellow member Suga having tested positive last week.

On Saturday, the group’s agency Big Hit Music announced RM and Jin’s diagnoses over the global fan community platform Weverse.

According to the agency, RM previously tested negative upon arrival in South Korea on Dec. 17 after taking part in “BTS Permission to Dance On Stage - LA” — the group’s first US performance in two years. But he subsequently tested positive just before his release from quarantine, the agency said.

Jin also received a negative result in a PCR test performed upon his arrival in South Korea on Dec. 6. But after he began experiencing flu-like symptoms, he took another PCR test that came back positive.

BTS member Jin (provided by Big Hit Music)

In an official statement, the agency said that both RM and Jin had received their second COVID-19 vaccine dose in late August and are currently undergoing home treatment in accordance with disease control authority guidelines.

It added that neither of them had been in contact with other BTS members after arriving in Korea.

Suga previously tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 23 while self-quarantining after his return to South Korea.

By Park Mee-hyang, staff reporter

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