Jeonbuk Province, Full Effort in COVID-19 Prevention Measures for College Entrance Exam

Governor Song Ha-jin: "We will do our best in quarantine activities so students can take the CSAT with confidence"

[Jeonju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Han-ho] Ahead of the 2022 College Scholastic Ability Test, Jeonbuk Province announced on the 15th that it is making every effort to establish an emergency response system and prepare separate testing sites within infectious disease-dedicated hospitals to protect examinees from infectious diseases and prevent transmission to the local community.

The province first plans to establish an emergency response system involving the Office of Education, city and county governments, public health centers, the Health and Environment Research Institute, and the Fire Headquarters to manage and support confirmed COVID-19 positive examinees so they can safely take the exam.

Additionally, in preparation for any confirmed cases among test takers, separate testing sites have been set up at infectious disease-dedicated hospitals within the province to ensure these individuals can safely take the exam, and on-site inspections have been completed.

Jeonbuk Province will guide symptomatic examinees or those notified as self-quarantined to receive PCR tests at public health centers rather than hospitals the day before the exam. To facilitate this, public health center screening clinics will operate until 10 PM on the day before the test.

The Health and Environment Research Institute will prioritize testing of examinee samples and promptly notify the provincial patient management team and city and county public health centers of the results.

City and county public health centers will inform the Office of Education to ensure that the examinees can safely take the exam at separate testing sites.

In the event of confirmed cases, transportation to the testing site will be handled by the Fire Headquarters.

Furthermore, to ensure examinee safety, health authorities have requested schools to refrain from indoor sports events and special activities until the exam to minimize exposure to infection risks.

Alongside this, special inspections of academies and private tutoring centers, which are heavily used by students, will be conducted jointly with the Office of Education until the 17th.

Governor Song Ha-jin stated, “We are doing our best to ensure the safe participation of confirmed and self-quarantined examinees and to prevent infection among general examinees,” and emphasized, “We ask residents to strictly follow quarantine rules so that infectious diseases do not spread from outside to inside schools, thereby helping examinees take the test safely.”

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

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