Gwangyang City Conducts Comprehensive COVID-19 Testing for Transportation Workers to Prevent Spread

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] As the spread of COVID-19 continues unabated, social distancing (Level 2) in non-metropolitan areas has been extended for two weeks from midnight on the 4th to midnight on the 17th, and private gatherings of five or more people are completely banned, causing national damage due to COVID-19.

In addition, it has been confirmed that employees and transportation workers at a taxi company located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, were infected with COVID-19 and transported passengers, raising concerns about the spread of secondary group infections through transportation workers and passengers.

Gwangyang City has decided to conduct proactive diagnostic testing for all city bus and taxi transportation workers in the area to prevent such secondary group infections.

The test subjects include 136 city bus transportation workers, 228 individual taxi transportation workers, and 269 corporate taxi transportation workers, totaling 633 people.

Individual taxi transportation workers can get tested tomorrow, corporate taxi transportation workers on the 13th, and city bus transportation workers on the 14th at the Gwangyang-eup Public Health Center.

Park Yang-gyun, Director of the Transportation Department, said, “We will do our best to ensure that citizens can use public transportation with peace of mind through thorough disinfection of public transportation and proactive testing of transportation workers, so we ask all citizens to wear masks and follow personal hygiene rules.”

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