All 9 Nursing Hospitals in Guro-gu Test Negative in COVID-19 Screening

April 23-28: Rapid pooled testing completed for 1,848 medical staff, caregivers, and new inpatients... All results negative

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Guro-gu (Mayor Lee Seong) conducted a comprehensive COVID-19 test targeting nursing hospitals in the area.

Guro-gu stated on the 1st that nursing hospitals are highly vulnerable to cluster infections, and to take a proactive approach, they conducted a full inspection following two previous sample tests.

This full inspection was carried out over six days from the 23rd to the 28th of last month, targeting a total of 1,848 people including all staff, caregivers, and newly admitted patients at nine nursing hospitals in the area.

The results were all negative.

Guro-gu used pooled testing to quickly test a large number of subjects.

Pooled testing is a technique that mixes samples from multiple people for testing, allowing up to 10 people to be tested at once. If a positive COVID-19 response is detected, the individual samples are retested to identify confirmed cases.

At the end of March and early April, Guro-gu conducted sample tests on 197 people at nursing homes and nursing hospitals in the area.

At that time, each sample was tested individually, and all results were also negative.

A Guro-gu official said, “We are carefully monitoring to prevent infections from occurring in nursing hospitals and nursing homes,” and added, “We sincerely thank everyone for actively cooperating with testing and quarantine measures.”

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