Gangbuk-gu Expands Deployment of Dedicated Quarantine Personnel to Strengthen Management of High-Risk Facilities for Group Infections

Focused quarantine on small religious facilities, academies and private institutes, nursing hospitals, and other high-risk group infection facilities... Also utilized as daily quarantine teams balancing everyday life and prevention

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Gangbuk-gu (Mayor Park Gyeom-su) will additionally deploy dedicated COVID-19 quarantine personnel to infection-vulnerable facilities. This decision stems from the need to further strengthen quarantine management at facilities with a high risk of cluster infections, such as small-scale religious facilities and nursing hospitals.

So far, the district has conducted quarantine operations through a public-private joint effort, operating a dual quarantine personnel system consisting of a mobile team and a disinfection team. The mobile team carried out quarantine mainly at large-scale multi-use facilities and along confirmed patients' movement paths, while the disinfection team primarily operated in small-scale facilities.

The 12 newly hired personnel who will serve as dedicated staff will be additionally assigned to the disinfection team. The district plans to flexibly deploy them to areas with high quarantine demand, such as regions densely populated with infection-vulnerable facilities. Furthermore, after the government’s strict social distancing measures end, the disinfection team will be converted into a daily quarantine team for continued use.

Previously, the district increased its response level by conducting unannounced visits to some PC rooms, karaoke rooms, and academies/tutoring centers that did not voluntarily participate in temporary closures, checking compliance with quarantine rules, and issuing administrative orders to prohibit gatherings at entertainment establishments.

Gangbuk-gu Mayor Park Gyeom-su said, “The range of cluster infection facilities is continuously expanding from religious facilities to entertainment establishments, which is a cause for great concern,” adding, “We will maintain tight vigilance to eliminate blind spots in infection control and respond meticulously.”

Last month, the district announced that during the ‘temporary pause’ period, multi-use facilities (▲PC rooms and karaoke rooms, ▲sports facilities, ▲academies/tutoring centers, ▲entertainment establishments) that voluntarily participated in closures for more than 14 days would receive a closure support fund of 1 million KRW.

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