Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju: "Prevention is the Best Quarantine"... Administrative Offices Visited by Contacts 'Shutdown'

Establishing Key Quarantine Guidelines to Ensure Thorough Proactive Measures

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Gwan-woo] Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City, is taking a proactive approach focused on prevention to block the spread of COVID-19.

According to Gwangsan-gu on the 24th, the Cheomdan 1-dong Administrative Welfare Center, which had a visit history from a resident who came into contact with one of the newly confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Gwangju area that day, was temporarily closed.

Furthermore, this information was immediately communicated to residents through SNS, and residents with urgent tasks such as certificate issuance and moving-in registration were guided to use the Cheomdan 2-dong Administrative Welfare Center.

As of that day, Gwangsan-gu completed disinfection of the Cheomdan 1-dong Administrative Welfare Center and is awaiting the diagnostic test results of the center’s staff.

The center plans to resume operations as soon as all staff members test negative, minimizing inconvenience to civil petitioners.

Gwangsan-gu is fully committed to preventing the spread of local infections by establishing differentiated quarantine guidelines such as ▲proactive quarantine ▲rapid investigation ▲thorough isolation ▲widespread testing.

As a result, the number of confirmed cases in Gwangsan-gu was significantly lower compared to Buk-gu, which has a similar population among the five autonomous districts in Gwangju.

As of that day, the number of confirmed cases by district was 362 in Buk-gu, 181 in Seo-gu, 135 in Gwangsan-gu, 86 in Nam-gu, and 65 in Dong-gu.

The population by district as of last month was 431,256 in Buk-gu, 406,126 in Gwangsan-gu, 297,214 in Seo-gu, 214,752 in Nam-gu, and 102,645 in Dong-gu.

A Gwangsan-gu official said, “We will continue to do our best to prevent the spread to second and third infections through swift responses whenever confirmed cases occur or contacts are identified through epidemiological investigations.”

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