984 Dapsimni Elementary School Students and Staff Tested for COVID-19

Dongdaemun-gu Installs COVID-19 Screening Clinic at Dapsimni Elementary School on the 6th, Testing a Total of 984 People Including 915 Students and 69 Staff Members

Yoo Deok-yeol, Mayor of Dongdaemun-gu, visiting the site of the testing center installed at Dapsimni Elementary School (right)

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Dongdaemun-gu (Mayor Yoo Deok-yeol) set up a COVID-19 screening clinic at Seoul Dapsimni Elementary School on the 6th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and conducted COVID-19 tests on a total of 984 people, including 915 students and 69 staff members of Seoul Dapsimni Elementary School.

After two students at Seoul Dapsimni Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19 on the 5th, the district comprehensively considered the vulnerability of elementary school students to infection, accessibility to public health center screening clinics, and the effectiveness of preventive proactive testing, and decided to operate an on-site screening clinic.

A total of 24 medical staff and officials from the Dongdaemun-gu Public Health Center screening clinic were deployed on-site to conduct the tests that day.

Yoo Deok-yeol, Mayor of Dongdaemun-gu, stated, “We have initiated proactive testing to block sporadic and silent transmission of COVID-19 and to protect children, who are a vulnerable group to infection. We sincerely hope that no additional confirmed cases will occur, and if any new cases do arise, we will do our best in quarantine by promptly conducting epidemiological investigations to quickly identify movement paths and contacts, and isolate contacts.”

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