Jeonju City Prepares and Implements COVID-19 Daily Life Recovery Support Plan

Safe Quarantine and Economic Revitalization, "Catching Two Rabbits at Once!"

[Jeonju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Kim Han-ho] Jeonju City announced on the 1st that it has prepared the ‘Jeonju City COVID-19 Daily Recovery Support Plan,’ consisting of 8 policies in 2 areas: quarantine medical care and economic livelihood, to enable citizens to safely restore their daily lives, and will begin full-scale implementation.

First, in the quarantine medical care sector, Jeonju City decided to focus on △promoting home treatment △increasing personnel at screening clinics △improving vaccination rates △strengthening mental healing, among others.

In particular, Jeonju City will promote home treatment for asymptomatic and mild confirmed patients under 70 years old who do not require hospitalization and who wish to receive it.

To this end, a dedicated home treatment management team (7 members) will be established, and in preparation for a surge in home treatment patients, a support team composed of 20 groups and 200 people will also be formed.

Additionally, considering the transfer distance to Namwon Medical Center, designated as the home treatment management medical institution, a rapid transfer system will be operated in case of emergencies, and a cooperative system with major medical institutions will be established to prepare for emergency situations.

Along with this, Jeonju City will increase personnel by about 20 at the Hwasan and Deokjin screening clinics in preparation for a surge in COVID-19 testers, and will add 3 more specimen collection lines to enable 4,000 tests per day.

The existing epidemiological investigation and self-quarantine will be reorganized into a risk-based epidemiological response system, and the epidemiological investigation period will be shortened to a maximum of 5 days after symptom onset, considering the level of the outbreak and quarantine capacity.

Jeonju City has achieved the government’s target of 70% with a COVID-19 vaccination rate of 74.5%, but since breakthrough infections are occurring, it plans to raise the rate to 80% before the second phase of daily recovery reform through vaccination of unvaccinated groups such as children, adolescents, and foreigners, as well as booster shots.

Secondly, as economic livelihood measures, Jeonju City will promote △revitalization of depressed alley markets △support for small business owners and local companies △activation of culture, tourism, and sports △strengthening inspections of multi-use facilities.

To revitalize the depressed alley markets and promote consumption, the ‘Jeonju Alley Market Dream Festival’ will be held this month with merchants and residents participating together, and safe call entry management services will be supported for restaurants and cafes.

A public delivery app with brokerage fees below 2% and no advertising fees will also be introduced.

To enable small business owners who suffered losses due to gathering bans and business restrictions to quickly receive compensation, three on-site reception desks will be operated at city and district offices, and a special guarantee support project for small business owners will be carried out using 4 billion KRW jointly funded by Jeonju City and Jeonbuk Bank.

Jeonju City has set the regional product priority purchase target amount for public institutions and related organizations next year at 30 billion KRW, 2 billion KRW higher than this year, to support small and medium-sized enterprises, and has raised the loan limit for SME development funds by 200 million KRW to 500 million KRW.

Furthermore, based on safe tourism infrastructure, efforts will be made to activate culture, tourism, and sports. Safety management will be conducted for cultural experience facilities in Hanok Village, Jeonju Station, terminals, and other major public facilities, and the Jeonju Tourism Recovery Project will be launched.

In addition, Jeonju will hold 44 sports competitions nationwide that had been postponed, and 55 cultural and sports public facilities in the Jeonju area will be gradually normalized. Resident autonomy programs, cultural centers, and welfare centers will also switch to face-to-face formats centered on those who have completed vaccination.

According to the revised social distancing guidelines, Jeonju City will lift restrictions on business hours for livelihood facilities such as restaurants, cafes, study rooms, and PC rooms, while introducing vaccination proof and negative test confirmation systems for high-risk facilities such as entertainment venues, karaoke rooms, indoor sports facilities, and bathhouses to strengthen management.

Jeonju=Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Kim Han-ho stonepeak@asiae.co.kr

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