Daejeon City Intensively Inspects Whether to Ban Gatherings at 'High-Risk Facilities' Such as Clubs

Daejeon City plans to conduct focused inspections to ensure compliance with administrative orders prohibiting gatherings at high-risk facilities within the city to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19). Photo is unrelated to the article. Photo by Mun Ho-nam munonam@

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City will conduct focused inspections to ensure compliance with the gathering ban at high-risk facilities such as clubs.

The city announced on the 27th that during the implementation period of Social Distancing Level 2, which will be maintained until the 6th of next month (midnight), it will carry out focused inspections to verify compliance with the gathering ban at 12 types of high-risk facilities subject to administrative measures prohibiting gatherings.

The focused inspections will be conducted by a joint inspection team composed of city, district, and police officials. Previously, on the 26th, the inspection team detected one high-risk facility located in Dunsan-dong, Seo-gu, that violated the gathering ban administrative order and continued operations, and reported it to judicial authorities.

The facilities subject to focused inspections include ▲clubs ▲room salons ▲colateks ▲danran pubs ▲emotional pubs ▲hunting pochas ▲karaoke rooms ▲indoor standing performance halls ▲indoor group exercise facilities ▲direct sales promotion centers such as door-to-door sales ▲large academies (with 300 or more people) ▲buffets ▲PC bangs.

Jung Hae-kyo, Director of the Health and Welfare Bureau of the city, said, “The city will conduct focused inspections of high-risk facilities until the 6th of next month, the period of the gathering ban administrative order, and if any violations are detected, we will apply a zero-tolerance policy and report them to judicial authorities. In this prolonged COVID-19 situation where everyone is facing difficulties, we ask for the active compliance of the inspected businesses to prevent further spread of infectious diseases in the region.”

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