Jeonnam Governor Kim Young-rok Begins Checking on Elderly Residents in the Province to Prepare for Heatwave

Request for Senior Centers to Comply with 'Safety and Quarantine Guidelines'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] Kim Young-rok, Governor of Jeonnam Province, has started checking on the well-being of elderly residents throughout the villages as the summer heat begins.

According to Jeonnam Province on the 4th, Governor Kim visited the Jeojeon Jeil Senior Citizens' Center in Suncheon, which operates as a heatwave shelter, to thoroughly inspect COVID-19 precautions and the heatwave situation.

The province has completed comprehensive disinfection of village senior centers, which had been closed for more than three months, and has now fully resumed their operation.

In particular, village chiefs and women's association heads have been designated as heatwave and quarantine managers, establishing an emergency contact system and conducting on-site monitoring to check on the elderly residents.

Out of 9,121 village senior centers in the province, 7,200 (78.9%) are being operated as heatwave shelters, accounting for 95.8% of the total 7,513 heatwave shelters in the Jeonnam region.

Governor Kim Young-rok of Jeonnam Province said, “The reason Jeonnam was able to establish itself as a COVID-19 clean area was thanks to the active participation of the elderly who strictly followed quarantine rules. Moving forward, please cooperate by thoroughly controlling external visitors such as door-to-door salespeople and adhering to quarantine guidelines so that village senior centers can remain safe resting places for the elderly.”

Meanwhile, Jeonnam Province has supported senior citizens, who are a high-risk group for COVID-19 infection, by providing quarantine supplies such as masks and hand sanitizers (worth 1.157 billion KRW) to senior centers, and has supplied 91,304 sets of quarantine and daily necessities sponsored by various organizations and companies to 48,350 elderly residents in need of care in the region.

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