Pohang Steelworks Urgently Provides Self-Test Kits to Overcome Local Community COVID-19 Crisis

From the 14th, 6,000 COVID-19 Self-Test Kits Delivered to 129 Locations Including Sister Villages

Employees of Pohang Steelworks are delivering COVID-19 prevention supplies in Seokbyeong 2-ri, Guryongpo-eup.

[Asia Economy Reporter Donghoon Jeong] POSCO Pohang Steelworks announced on the 21st that it has launched an emergency support effort to help secure self-test kits for sister villages and welfare institutions.

To assist the residents of sister villages and welfare facilities with rapid COVID-19 testing and quarantine measures, Pohang Steelworks urgently secured test kits. Since the 14th of this month, Pohang Steelworks has delivered 6,000 self-test kits and KF94 masks to 129 locations, including sister villages.

Baekhee Lee, head of Pohang Steelworks, stated, "While all employees are working together to operate Pohang Steelworks, the core of the regional steel industry, stably to overcome the COVID-19 crisis, we also want to actively support the difficulties of the local community. We hope this will be of some help to the citizens of Pohang who are struggling to secure self-test kits due to the recent surge in confirmed cases."

Since the early spread of COVID-19, POSCO has taken the lead in preventing regional infection spread. In 2020, POSCO contributed 5 billion KRW to support quarantine efforts and delivered support kits for medical staff during the COVID-19 outbreak in Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions.

Additionally, since 2020, Pohang Steelworks has been providing quarantine supplies such as hand sanitizers and masks to local children's centers, welfare institutions, and sister villages, and has been assisting with quarantine of public facilities in sister villages through weekend volunteer activities.

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