President Moon Visits Public Health Center for COVID-19 Response... Checks Quarantine Status

President Moon Jae-in is wearing a mask on the 5th before inspecting the response to the novel coronavirus at Seongdong-gu Public Health Center. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Son Sun-hee] President Moon Jae-in visited a public health center on the 5th to inspect quarantine measures and encourage officials in relation to the spreading novel coronavirus infection (Wuhan pneumonia).

President Moon visited the Seongdong-gu Public Health Center in Seoul at around 10:30 a.m. that day. This was his second visit to a frontline medical site since the National Medical Center on the 28th of last month.

At the Seongdong-gu Public Health Center, President Moon received a briefing on community quarantine measures from Jung Won-oh, Mayor of Seongdong-gu, and Kim Kyung-hee, Director of the Public Health Center. He also encouraged the officials working on site and listened to their difficulties. Above all, he urged them to make every effort to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

According to the Blue House, Seongdong-gu operates the only screening clinic with negative pressure facilities among Seoul's public health centers.

Accompanying him on site were Kim Gye-jo, Director of the Disaster and Safety Management Headquarters at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Park Won-soon, Mayor of Seoul, and Kim Yeon-myeong, Senior Secretary for Social Affairs at the Blue House.

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