Seoul City "100,000 Hand Sanitizers to be Provided in Apartment and Multi-family Elevators"

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Yuri] The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 9th that it will provide 108,500 hand sanitizers in elevators of collective buildings such as small apartments, row houses, and multi-family houses.

Collective buildings are spaces where many citizens reside and have a high possibility of close contact, but unlike medium- and large-sized apartments, many do not have separate management offices. The city explained that this measure is taken to respond to government quarantine policies and proactively cover blind spots in infectious disease management.

The support targets are apartments with fewer than 150 households with elevators in Seoul, row houses, multi-family houses, residential officetels, and urban lifestyle housing. The city will support the placement of hand sanitizers at least three times in each of the total 35,727 elevators.

The city plans to complete the distribution of hand sanitizers to the targeted collective buildings through each autonomous district within this month. This support is an additional measure following the distribution of 75,000 hand sanitizers to apartment complexes with 150 or more households by the Seoul Metropolitan Government in mid-March.

In the first support in March, the city urgently invested city funds, and for this additional support, hand sanitizers were purchased with disaster safety special grants from the government. Demand surveys were conducted respectively, and support was provided to complexes that were difficult to secure on their own.

Ryu Hoon, head of the Seoul Housing and Architecture Headquarters, said, "As the government emphasized high-intensity social distancing and extended it for two weeks, Seoul also aims to proactively block the possibility of COVID-19 infection by placing hand sanitizers in elevators, which are enclosed shared spaces within collective buildings." He added, "Through this hand sanitizer support, we will establish a thorough quarantine network even in small-scale collective buildings so that many Seoul citizens can prevent infection."

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