Suwon City Produces 'White Paper' Summarizing 2 Years and 6 Months of COVID-19 Response Process

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Suwon City in Gyeonggi Province has produced a COVID-19 white paper.

On the 28th, Suwon City announced that it had published the "Suwon Special City COVID-19 Response White Paper," which clearly summarizes the COVID-19 response process over the past two and a half years.

This is the second COVID-19 response white paper following the "Basic Local Government Suwon City COVID-19 Response 200 Days Record" published in August 2020.

This white paper is composed of four chapters: ▲Meeting COVID-19 ▲Solving COVID-19 ▲Connecting through COVID-19 ▲Rethinking COVID-19. The appendix also includes the "COVID-19 Timeline," "Suwon City COVID-19 Statistics," and "Major COVID-19 Response Logs."

In "Meeting COVID-19," it introduces Suwon City's major COVID-19 response measures such as operating temporary living facilities for self-quarantined individuals for the first time among basic local governments, the Suwon-type overseas entrant safety management system, activating citizen participation in quarantine through public-private cooperation, and the prompt response to the Omicron variant.

In "Solving COVID-19," the COVID-19 response over two and a half years after the formation of the Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters is detailed under five themes: ▲Finding solutions for Suwon City's COVID-19 - Basic quarantine ▲Implementing - Customized quarantine ▲Supporting - Disaster policy ▲Collaborating - Cooperation policy ▲Empathizing - Everyone is a hero.

"Connecting through COVID-19" introduces Suwon City's efforts to provide citizens with COVID-19 information quickly and transparently through call centers, COVID-19 inquiry boards, COVID-19 related visualization services, media reports, and SNS.

In "Rethinking COVID-19," it identifies problems during the COVID-19 response process and includes improvement plans, response strategies, achievements, and suggestions for responding to future infectious diseases.

As measures for future infectious disease response, Suwon City proposed ▲Establishing a long-term foundation for securing and maintaining epidemiological investigators ▲Training infectious disease response personnel ▲Strengthening private quarantine capabilities ▲Providing clear guidelines on disclosing confirmed patients' movement paths ▲Organizing response teams.

In his foreword, Suwon Mayor Lee Jae-jun said, "This white paper contains the wisdom of Suwon citizens who endured and overcame the painful COVID-19 era together," and expressed gratitude to "the citizens and medical staff and public officials who did their best in each field."

The city plans to distribute this white paper to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, related ministries, cities and counties within Gyeonggi Province, metropolitan local governments nationwide, and local general hospitals, police stations, fire stations, and education support offices.

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