BTS’s Suga recovers from COVID-19, K-pop star Min Eun-gi ends quarantine after making full recovery

BTS member Suga has made a “full recovery” from COVID-19, the management agency of popular South Korean music septet BigHit Music said on Monday. Suga, who tested positive for the virus on December 24, will now resume his day-to-day activities. “We would like to inform you that BTS member SUGA has made a full recovery from COVID-19 and his quarantine ends this afternoon, January 3. SUGA who has been away from home for the last ten days starting Friday Was receiving treatment, December 24 is now able to return to his daily activities,” BigHit Music said in a statement shared on fan community forum Weavers.

Suga, whose real name is Min Eun-gi, did not show any specific symptoms during his quarantine. The 28-year-old rapper is currently recovering while resting at home, the agency said.

“We would like to thank all the fans who have expressed concern for the artist’s health as well as the medical sector who are doing their best to overcome COVID-19. We make the artist’s health our top priority. Will continue to keep it as is, and to follow the health guidelines cautiously,” BigHit Music further said in the statement.

Suga had tested positive for the virus while under self-quarantine, after taking a PCR test on his return to South Korea from the US on 23 December.

“I’m great. Don’t worry too much,” he wrote in an update to the band’s fan group ARMY on December 27 on Weavers.

A day after Suga’s diagnosis was made public, the management agency announced the group’s leader RM (Kim Nam-joon) and Jin (Kim Seok-jin) had also tested positive after returning from the US.

RM, 27, and Jin, 29, are currently self-treating at home as per health authority guidelines.

After performing at four in-person concerts in Los Angeles, US, in December, BTS announced that they were going to take “extended rest periods” to enable the group to “re-motivate and recharge with creative energy”. “Take it.