Park Jun-hee, Gwanak-gu Mayor: "COVID-19 Quarantine Measures Should Be Strong to the Point of Excess..."

Religious facilities, traditional markets, private multi-use facilities, and vulnerable group facilities receive thorough quarantine without blind spots... Actively encouraging participation in high-intensity social distancing, providing support funds for voluntary closures, and implementing proactive administration

[Asia Economy Reporter Jong-il Park] Gwanak-gu's proactive quarantine administration, which has been tirelessly working on the front lines of epidemic prevention, stands out.

Gwanak-gu (Mayor Park Jun-hee) focused on "on-site quarantine" closely related to residents' daily lives. Since the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, they have visited living sites such as lodging businesses, large restaurants, and job placement agencies to inspect the situation and distributed quarantine supplies like masks and hand sanitizers to prepare for preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the community.

Using a 3.5-ton water spraying vehicle, they disinfect key areas such as bus stops, subway station entrances, Sharosugil, major alleyway commercial districts, and residential areas three times a day, thoroughly covering residents' living spaces. They also continue meticulous quarantine efforts by distributing about 8,400 hand sanitizers and antibacterial films to apartment complexes and multi-tenant buildings to prevent blind spots in quarantine.

To ensure the safety of visitors to markets, they have conducted large-scale disinfection of over 1,600 individual stores in 21 traditional markets, and ongoing disinfection of 184 religious facilities with more than 50 congregants and Shincheonji-affiliated facilities to alleviate residents' concerns about mass infections.

In addition to disinfecting government offices and public facilities, they focus on disinfecting 933 private multi-use facilities prone to cluster infections, such as PC rooms and karaoke rooms.

Notably, Gwanak-gu is the first district nationwide to directly deliver quarantine supplies such as disinfectants to businesses through the "1020 Gang Gam-chan Quarantine Supplies Delivery Service," helping businesses maintain constant disinfection and receiving positive responses from residents.

The district has generously stocked 8,000 disinfectants with support from Seoul City and district contingency funds and is distributing them sequentially to 933 private multi-use facilities, continuously providing services whenever requested by businesses.

Furthermore, five major base facilities including Gwanak-gu Office and the Gwanak-gu Taekwondo Association have been equipped with three disinfectors and supplies each to encourage strengthening daily quarantine measures.

They are also taking the lead in protecting the health and safety of vulnerable groups from COVID-19. The district supports home disinfection for 200 registered disabled elderly households living in semi-basements and has distributed about 400,000 masks to vulnerable groups such as pregnant women, seniors aged 75 and older, persons with disabilities of grades 1 to 3, and recipients of livelihood benefits.

Quarantine expenses or supplies have also been provided to five social welfare facilities, senior welfare centers, and senior citizen centers.

Alongside encouraging quarantine, the district is proactively administering measures to induce voluntary closures of private multi-use facilities and academies during the high-intensity social distancing campaign period.

For businesses such as PC rooms, karaoke rooms, and small academies that voluntarily participated in closures, the district quickly decided to provide closure support funds to compensate for business losses, offering up to 1 million KRW depending on the closure period. Private kindergartens that closed will also receive subsidies of up to 5 million KRW.

Mayor Park Jun-hee stated, "Although the increase in confirmed cases has slowed, it is not yet a stage to be complacent. We will continue to work tirelessly on the front lines of quarantine until COVID-19 is completely eradicated. We ask all residents to participate a little more in high-intensity social distancing for the rapid end of COVID-19."

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