Jinju Mayor Jo Gyu-il: "We Will Block COVID-19 Transmission... Provide Safe Accommodation for Home Treatment Patients"

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jinju City, Gyeongnam Province, is supporting the rapid return to daily life for COVID-19 home treatment patients.

On the 18th, Jinju Mayor Jo Gyu-il announced COVID-19 measures at a briefing room in the city hall and stated that safe accommodations for cohabiting family members of home treatment patients will be designated and operated.

Since the COVID-19 treatment system shifted to home treatment as the basic approach, home treatment patients are typically quarantined at home for 10 days. During this period, cohabiting family members are designated as close contacts; those who have completed vaccination must quarantine for 7 days, while those who have not completed vaccination must quarantine for 17 days.

Although they are not confirmed patients, family members of home treatment patients find daily life impossible, and anxiety about secondary infections among family members increases. Thus, the co-quarantine of family members is pointed out as one of the major inconveniences of home treatment.

To resolve these inconveniences, Jinju City has prepared an operation plan for safe accommodations for cohabiting family members of home treatment patients so that they can safely carry out daily life.

Among cohabiting family members, those who have completed vaccination can enter the safe accommodations, be separated from the home treatment patient, and be reclassified as passive monitors, allowing them to move with minimal routes such as commuting to work or school.

To this end, Jinju City has additionally secured safe accommodations within the city that vaccinated individuals can use.

The accommodation providers have agreed to actively cooperate in COVID-19 prevention measures for users, offering discounted lodging fees and operating 30 rooms across 3 separate floors exclusively for cohabiting family members as part of social contribution and shared hardship.

The safe accommodations have been in operation since the 17th and will continue until March. The period will be extended quarterly considering the rate of confirmed cases, accommodation usage, and other circumstances.

Unvaccinated individuals are classified as self-quarantined and can use part of the safe accommodations (9 rooms) currently operated by the city for overseas entrants.

Use of the safe accommodations requires a certificate for cohabiting family members of home treatment patients issued by the public health center and costs 10,000 KRW per day. The city supports the remaining portion of the usage fee.

Mayor Jo Gyu-il of Jinju said, “We hope that operating safe accommodations for cohabiting family members of home treatment patients will eliminate their anxiety and inconvenience and accelerate a safe return to daily life.”

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