Daejeon City Strengthens Testing and Facility Admission Management for All Overseas Arrivals

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City is strengthening the management of overseas arrivals entering the region.

The city announced that it has prepared detailed operational guidelines in line with the enhanced management measures for overseas arrivals related to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), which will be implemented starting from the 1st.

Prior to the implementation of the operational guidelines, the city set up an open-type screening clinic at the East Plaza of Daejeon Station the day before, deploying personnel and equipment to enable overseas arrivals to undergo specimen collection and testing immediately upon arrival in Daejeon.

Additionally, arrivals are either placed under self-quarantine or admitted to the Daejeon Youth Training Village in Chimsan-dong, Jung-gu, using support vehicles provided by the city, and quarantined for 1 to 2 days until test results are available. The cost of using the facilities during this period is free of charge.

The city will hospitalize arrivals who test positive and instruct those who test negative to return home and self-quarantine for 14 days starting from the day of arrival.

If self-quarantine is difficult, short-term foreign visitors or Daejeon citizens can use quarantine facilities for 14 days at Maninsan Pureun Learning Center (14 rooms) and the International Intellectual Property Training Institute located in Daejeon (58 rooms).

The target group includes overseas arrivals who have no family or fixed residence, minors or others requiring care during self-quarantine, and those whose residence makes self-quarantine practically impossible. However, in the case of facility quarantine, the quarantined person must bear the cost. The fee is 50,000 KRW per day for Daejeon citizens and 100,000 KRW per day for foreigners.

Healthcare personnel work in shifts at the quarantine facilities, providing meals and monitoring the residents.

Furthermore, the city keeps two chartered buses on standby at the East Plaza of Daejeon Station for arrivals using the dedicated KTX for overseas arrivals or citizens who cannot use private vehicles when moving from quarantine facilities to their homes, and one chartered bus at the quarantine facilities.

Park Wol-hoon, Director of the Citizen Safety Office of the city, stated, “The city plans to take strong and proactive measures, including testing all asymptomatic overseas arrivals, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infection. Since minimizing contact is crucial for infection prevention, we ask for the cooperation of the families of arrivals in this regard.”

Meanwhile, a total of 134 overseas arrivals entered Daejeon Station from the 28th to the 31st of last month. Among them, as of the 1st, 90 are under self-quarantine, 33 are in facility quarantine, and 11 are classified as transfers to other regions.

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