Goheung-gun Strengthens COVID-19 Prevention Rule Inspections at Restaurants and Cafes

Preemptive Measures Against Risk Factors Such as Year-End and New Year Period and Winter Respiratory Infectious Disease Increase

[Goheung=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Chunsu] On the 23rd, Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that it will strengthen the inspection of quarantine rules focusing on 944 establishments such as restaurants and cafes with a high risk of infection, as COVID-19 is spreading nationwide and confirmed cases are increasing mainly in the eastern region of Jeollanam-do.

Recently, a serious crisis situation has arisen with a rapid increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the neighboring city of Suncheon and confirmed cases occurring in Goheung-gun as well.

With the year-end approaching, the county is expanding inspections of compliance with quarantine rules due to increased family dining out, various events and gatherings with a high possibility of contact with unspecified many people, and many risk factors such as the increase of respiratory infectious diseases in winter.

Moreover, from 0:00 on the 24th, Jeollanam-do will raise social distancing to level 1.5, and to improve the vulnerable dining culture against infectious diseases, it plans to intensively inspect three improvement tasks including sharing food less, hygienic management of spoons and chopsticks, and mask-wearing by workers, along with quarantine measures such as distancing between tables and managing visitor logs, in accordance with social distancing level 2.

In addition, to promptly inform about the additional and expanded quarantine rules, text messages reminding restaurant owners to comply with quarantine rules will be sent frequently, and after distributing notices on the changed quarantine measures according to social distancing levels, strong administrative actions such as fines will be taken against establishments violating quarantine rules.

A county official said, “In a situation where the third wave of COVID-19 is a concern, we ask everyone to pay special attention to personal hygiene such as washing hands, wearing masks, and to ventilate and disinfect periodically at least twice a day.”

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