Dobong-gu Urgently Provides 58,770 Health Masks to Daycare Centers

40,470 Child Masks and 13,300 Adult Masks Provided to 214 Daycare Centers...6 Masks per Child, 7 Masks per Childcare Staff Member Distributed

A Dobong-gu employee is handing over health masks to a daycare center official.

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Dobong-gu (Mayor Lee Dong-jin) urgently supported 45,470 children's masks and 13,300 adult masks to 214 daycare centers in the district on the 19th to prevent and contain the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

Earlier, the Ministry of Health and Welfare lifted the nationwide daycare center closure order on June 1, but Seoul's daycare centers have maintained closures and provided emergency childcare due to the continuous increase in COVID-19 confirmed cases. Currently, 5,387 children (81.5% of the total enrollment) are using emergency childcare at Dobong-gu daycare centers.

Accordingly, to prevent COVID-19 infection within daycare centers, the district distributed health masks (KF80) to approximately 6,600 enrolled children, providing 6 masks per child, and to about 1,800 childcare staff, providing 7 masks per person. The surplus masks are stored at the daycare centers for use in cases such as symptomatic individuals.

On April 29, the district provided daycare centers caring for infants and young children vulnerable to infectious diseases with 12,273 children's masks, 3,550 staff masks, 10,728 cloth masks, 215 automatic hand sanitizers, 260 hand sanitizers, and 265 non-contact thermometers. On June 4, an additional 3,753 one-liter hand sanitizers were urgently supplied.

Mayor Lee Dong-jin of Dobong-gu stated, “Dobong-gu regularly supports quarantine supplies (masks, hand sanitizers, etc.) to daycare centers providing emergency childcare and supports disinfection costs and monitoring to enable bi-monthly professional disinfection. We will thoroughly prepare to ensure the safety of infants and young children, who are a health-vulnerable group, and childcare staff who closely interact with them, as well as to prevent COVID-19 infections within daycare centers.”

Lee Dong-jin, the mayor of Dobong-gu, is handing over an automatic hand sanitizer.

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