Busan Gijang-gun Deploys All Public Officials to Operate 'COVID-19 Field Inspection Team'

Operating 5 Eup and Myeon, 4 Teams, and 29 Groups with the County Governor as Leader and All Staff as Members

A COVID-19 field inspection team composed of former public officials from Gijang-gun is conducting inspections of hazardous facilities within the district.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Kim Yong-woo] From the 24th, Busan’s Gijang-gun has organized all employees, including the county governor, into a COVID-19 on-site guidance inspection team to operate a continuous inspection system for 1,252 high- and medium-risk facilities and religious facilities within the jurisdiction.

The inspection team is composed of four teams, with the Gijang-gun governor as the head, the deputy governor as the deputy head, directors as team leaders, and department heads as squad leaders.

The inspection teams are organized in pairs of two and plan to continuously conduct administrative inspections and guidance every day across five towns and townships.

Team 1 (Administrative Autonomy Bureau Director Team) consists of 10 squads, including six departments under the Administrative Autonomy Bureau, the Seaweed Breeding Convergence Research Center, the 2030 Planning Team, the Agricultural Technology Center, and Gijang-eup, inspecting 519 locations in the Gijang-eup area.

Team 2 (Education Happiness Bureau Director Team) is composed of seven squads, including five departments under the Education Happiness Bureau, the Planning and Integrity Office, and Jeonggwan-eup, responsible for 481 locations in the Jeonggwan-eup area.

Team 3 (Creative Economy Bureau Director Team) is organized into five squads under six departments of the Creative Economy Bureau to inspect 118 locations in the Ilgwang-myeon area.

Team 4 (Safety City Bureau Director Team) consists of seven squads under seven departments of the Safety City Bureau to inspect 134 locations in the Jangan-eup and Cheolma-myeon areas.

Employees will conduct on-site guidance during weekday working hours targeting medium-risk facilities such as academies (under 300 people), general restaurants (over 150㎡), and indoor sports facilities, checking compliance with quarantine rules such as mask-wearing, temperature checks, maintaining a 2-meter distance, and operation of entry logs.

Department heads and above will focus on inspecting high-risk facilities and religious facilities such as PC rooms, karaoke rooms, entertainment bars, and churches during weekday nights, weekends, and holidays, concentrating on compliance with Busan city’s assembly ban and restriction administrative orders.

Although excluded from Busan city’s mandatory administrative orders, rest restaurants (large cafes, etc.) and large meat markets, which are high-risk multi-use facilities, will also be administratively guided on maintaining handwritten visitor logs, mandatory mask-wearing, and habitual use of hand sanitizers.

When visiting medium-risk facilities, rest restaurants (large cafes, etc.), and large meat markets, the inspection teams provide one bottle of hand sanitizer and handwritten visitor log forms created by Gijang-gun.

Previously, on the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd, the Gijang-gun governor, directors, and department heads conducted focused on-site inspections of PC rooms, karaoke rooms, entertainment bars, and religious facilities within the jurisdiction to check compliance with Busan city’s administrative orders.

Gijang-gun Governor Oh Gyu-seok stated, “This is a war against COVID-19. Without vaccines, the only weapons we have are masks, hand sanitizers, and thorough disinfection. Our public officials must have a sense of crisis and vigilance to ensure the safety and protect the lives of 170,000 residents. Let’s tighten our vigilance even more.”

Earlier, Gijang-gun completed installing 722 banners with the message “Please wear a mask when going out” at intersections, overpasses, parks, coastal cafe villages, Gijang and Ilgwang stations, complex shopping malls, and other multi-use facilities and densely populated areas.

Hand sanitizers have been placed at about 1,000 locations, including outdoor exercise equipment and playground facilities at 157 outdoor sports facilities in villages, parks, and riversides, as well as at 336 bus stop shelters.

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