'Filling the Gaps in Quarantine'... Gangwon Region Launches 'Proactive Quarantine' Measures

Starting July, Full-Scale Implementation of Autonomous Quarantine Projects by Quarantine Partner Organizations Until Year-End

[Asia Economy Reporter Ra Young-cheol] The autonomous quarantine project by the Gangwon Living Quarantine Council groups (hereinafter referred to as quarantine partner groups) will be actively promoted from July until the end of the year.

According to Gangwon Province on the 1st, from this month, non-metropolitan areas including Gangwon Province will implement a revised social distancing system, which mainly includes lifting the ban on gatherings of five or more people and minimizing operating hour restrictions on multi-use facilities.

The province expects that the autonomous quarantine project by the quarantine partner groups, launched in line with the significant relaxation of the existing distancing system, will fill the gaps in quarantine within the province that may become loose.

The quarantine partner groups plan to sequentially carry out various autonomous quarantine projects that well reflect their activity areas and characteristics.

They will focus on promoting quarantine rules to residents and autonomous quarantine campaigns, as well as disinfection of multi-use facilities and vulnerable areas.

In particular, the Gangwon Province Rural Guesthouse Association plans to use a reservation system to provide quarantine supplies and guide quarantine rules in advance for guesthouse users during the summer vacation season.

Organizations such as the Economic Association, Merchants' Federation, and the Gangwon Branch of the Korea Foodservice Industry Association plan to conduct quarantine education at workplaces in their respective fields and carry out projects targeting major densely populated areas such as central commercial districts and traditional markets within the province.

The project expenses required for the autonomous quarantine projects of the quarantine partner groups will be supported at the provincial level, thereby further strengthening autonomous quarantine in the private sector.

Park Dong-joo, Director of the Health, Welfare and Women’s Affairs Bureau of the province, said, "As social distancing is relaxed from July 1, it is more important than ever to fill the gaps in quarantine," adding, "I hope the implementation of autonomous quarantine projects by the quarantine partner groups will act synergistically with the expansion of vaccination."

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