Yangju City Issues Administrative Order Mandating COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing for Foreign Workers and Others

Including Employment Agency Workers and Users

Nam-myeon Screening Clinic [Yangju-si]

[Asia Economy Reporter Ra Young-cheol] Yangju City, Gyeonggi Province announced on the 29th that it has issued an administrative order mandating COVID-19 diagnostic testing for foreign workers employed at local businesses, hygiene establishments, and agricultural and livestock facilities, as well as for workers and users of job placement agencies, from the 29th through October 10th.

This measure comes in response to the increased risk of cluster infections within the region following the large-scale movement during the Chuseok holiday and the prevalence of the Delta variant, which caused the number of new daily confirmed cases to exceed 3,000 for the first time since the domestic outbreak on the 24th.

In particular, the inclusion of job placement agency workers and users in this administrative order is due to the fact that most of them are day laborers, making it difficult to trace infection routes in case of confirmed cases, thereby aiming to minimize the risk of chain infections and the spread of community transmission.

Accordingly, employers who hire one or more foreign workers must ensure that all foreign workers, including undocumented foreigners, undergo COVID-19 diagnostic testing, and all persons subject to the order, including job placement agency workers and users, must comply with the administrative order within the specified period.

However, foreigners who have undergone COVID-19 diagnostic testing since September 1 of this year or who have completed the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at least two weeks prior are exempted.

COVID-19 diagnostic testing is available at the screening clinic in Yuyang-dong (83 Yuyang-dong) and the temporary screening clinic in front of Deokjeong Station (350-14 Deokjeong-dong), and testing is free of charge.

Violations of the administrative order will result in fines of up to 2 million won under the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Act, and if infections spread, quarantine costs such as testing, investigation, and treatment may be charged.

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