Yeongam-gun, Samho-eup Temporary Screening Clinic Installs 'Walk-Through Booth'

Efficient Testing Enabled by Non-Face-to-Face Specimen Collection for Medical Staff and Testees

Temporary tent-type screening clinic next to Samho-eup Hanmaeum Hall, non-face-to-face walk-through mobile testing site ⓒ Asia Economy

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Seo Young-seo] Yeongam-gun, Jeollanam-do, has secured a special grant of 80 million won to actively and proactively operate temporary screening clinics to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Since July, the tent-type temporary screening clinic next to Hanmaeum Hall in Samho-eup has been changed and installed as a non-face-to-face walk-through mobile testing site.

By changing the temporary screening clinic, where medical staff wore protective suits and masks and worked outdoors for long hours in heatwaves and cold waves, into walk-through booths, they can now work safely in an improved environment.

As the number of tests in Samho-eup, where companies and industrial complexes are concentrated, has been increasing daily due to administrative orders for foreign workers to undergo diagnostic tests every two weeks, the temporary screening clinic will be operated year-round until the end of COVID-19 for the time being.

In addition, the Yeongam-gun Public Health Center operates temporary screening clinics at Haksan Market and Yeongam Market until the 31st, conducting diagnostic tests to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections among external merchants and local residents.

Also, in preparation for the full-scale autumn outing season, a temporary screening clinic has been installed and is being operated continuously at Wolchulsan Gichan Land from the 25th of last month to the 21st of next month, making every effort to proactively respond to the spread of local infections caused by tourists from other regions.

A county official said, “As the recent trend of confirmed cases shows more contact infections from other regions, we ask people to refrain from traveling and meeting during the autumn outing season and for those who have contact with visitors from other regions to get tested and return safely to their daily lives.”

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