Gwangyang City Conducts Special COVID-19 Prevention Inspections for Year-End and New Year Period

Joint Intensive Inspection of Restaurants and Cafes Conducted with Gwangyang Police Station

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Gwangyang City announced that, together with the Gwangyang Police Station, it has organized 20 teams with 41 inspectors to conduct intensive inspections over six days from yesterday until the 3rd of next month to ensure compliance with quarantine rules at facilities where mask-wearing is mandatory.

The target facilities include a total of 3,032 food and public hygiene establishments: 2,346 general restaurants, 315 snack bars, 228 entertainment bars, 35 karaoke bars, 2 colatecs, and 106 lodging facilities.

The main special quarantine inspections focus on ▲ management of visitor logs (electronic visitor logs, handwritten visitor logs) ▲ whether employees and users are wearing masks, and whether ventilation and disinfection are being carried out ▲ maintaining a 1-meter distance between tables in restaurants and cafes (over 50㎡), leaving one seat empty, and installing table partitions ▲ allowing only takeout and delivery from around 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. the next day at restaurants and cafes ▲ prohibition of private gatherings of five or more people (at food-selling restaurants) ▲ whether entertainment and karaoke bars are prohibited from gathering ▲ limiting reservations at lodging facilities to within 50% of total rooms.

Facility operators violating the special quarantine inspections may be fined up to 3 million KRW or face penalties, and users may be fined up to 100,000 KRW.

Seong Jae-soon, Director of the Health and Hygiene Division, said, “For the safety of families and citizens during the year-end and New Year period, please refrain from using multi-use facilities as much as possible, and especially cancel year-end gatherings. We ask for active cooperation in complying with government guidelines and quarantine rules.”

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