Jinju City, Joint Quarantine Efforts by 8 Cities and Counties in Western Gyeongnam

Purpose of Blocking COVID-19 Community Spread and Infection Sources

A joint response promotion meeting is being held for eight cities and counties in western Gyeongnam, Jinju.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jinju City in Gyeongnam held an administrative directors' meeting of eight cities and counties in western Gyeongnam and decided to jointly respond to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

On the 15th at 3 p.m., the city held an emergency meeting of administrative directors from eight cities and counties including Jinju, Sacheon, Goseong, Namhae, Hadong, Sancheong, Hamyang, and Hapcheon at the City Hall Cultural Lecture Room to prevent the recent spread of COVID-19 cluster infections originating from bathhouses.

At the meeting, to promptly stop the large-scale cluster infections originating from bathhouses and prevent their spread to neighboring cities and counties, they agreed to cooperate for joint quarantine in the same living area of western Gyeongnam by requesting restrictions on inter-city and county movement and refraining from visiting bathhouses outside their areas.

Previously, Jinju City had taken the lead in joint quarantine in the same living area by accepting requests from four cities and counties (Sacheon, Sancheong, Hadong, Namhae) last year, including expanding convenience bus operations for overseas entrants.

Additionally, selective screening clinics (such as the Sangdaedong Administrative Welfare Center) were established in COVID-19 high-incidence areas to conduct comprehensive testing of nearby apartment residents. They have also discussed improvement plans with the bathhouse industry, established quarantine manuals for bathhouse businesses, requested prohibition of visiting bathhouses in neighboring cities and counties, converted religious facilities around cluster infection sites to non-face-to-face services, and temporarily closed academy facilities for one week, demonstrating swift and thorough responses.

Jinju Mayor Cho Gyu-il expressed gratitude to the administrative directors of the cities and counties attending the emergency meeting and stated, “Cooperative response among neighboring cities and counties is most important to prevent this unprecedented cluster infection situation.” He urged, “Please actively cooperate so that joint measures through collaboration among western Gyeongnam cities and counties become a model case for preventing the spread of COVID-19.”

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