Facilities Violating Quarantine Guidelines to Receive '10-Day Suspension' Administrative Sanction

KDCA Announces Legislative Notice for Enforcement Rules and Decree of the Infectious Disease Prevention Act

On the 17th, as the spread of COVID-19 continues, citizens wearing masks are moving around The Hyundai Seoul in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. The quarantine authorities will implement special quarantine measures in the metropolitan area for two weeks starting today. Along with intensive inspections of multi-use facilities such as department stores, markets, and parks, an administrative order has been issued requiring diagnostic testing for foreign workers.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Seo So-jung] In the future, multi-use facilities that violate quarantine guidelines such as mask-wearing orders are expected to face administrative sanctions of '10 days suspension of operations' from the first violation.

On the 26th, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) announced that it has proposed legislation to strengthen administrative sanctions on facilities and places that violate quarantine guidelines such as mask-wearing, under the Enforcement Rules of the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Act, and will collect opinions until the 16th of next month.

Until now, facilities and places that violated quarantine guidelines such as mask-wearing were only given a warning for the first violation, but going forward, the detailed standards for administrative sanctions will be strengthened to allow suspension of operations from the first violation.

The KDCA stated, "The purpose is to apply the so-called ‘one-strike-out system,’ a stronger measure than existing administrative sanctions, when core quarantine rules are violated," and added, "By strengthening the detailed standards for administrative sanctions, we plan to enhance compliance with quarantine rules."

The KDCA also partially amended the Enforcement Decree of the Infectious Disease Prevention Act to flexibly manage facility and self-quarantine periods and to expand the scope of adverse reaction reporting after vaccination.

By changing the quarantine period (self or facility) applied uniformly to quarantine subjects to 'the day determined by the KDCA within the maximum incubation period of the infectious disease,' the quarantine period can be flexibly managed considering cases such as antibody formation after infectious disease vaccination.

Additionally, by adding infectious diseases subject to temporary vaccination to the scope of adverse reaction reporting after vaccination, which was previously limited to mandatory vaccinations, rapid reporting of adverse reactions after COVID-19 vaccination is now possible.

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