[사회]2,000 people confirmed for 3 weeks at the temporary screening laboratory…”2 weeks extension”

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During the three weeks when the metropolitan area screening test center was installed, the number of so-called’quiet confirmed patients’ surpassed 2,000.

The quarantine authorities decided to operate the inspection station for two more weeks in line with the extended social distancing.

Connect to reporters who are out on site. Reporter Son Hyo-jeong!

About 3 weeks have passed since the temporary screening office in the metropolitan area was established. What is the situation now?

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Yes, I kept seeing the citizens who visited the inspection office for a while.

The temporary screening offices installed in the metropolitan area were originally until yesterday, but as social distancing was extended, they were operated for another two weeks.

Even if there is no history of symptoms or contact with a confirmed person, anyone can get the test for free until the 17th.

There are 188 such screening stations in total, 153 in the metropolitan area and 35 in the non-metropolitan area.

The quarantine authorities assessed that more than 2,000 confirmed cases were found in advance during the last three weeks when the metropolitan area inspection center was operating.

Yesterday, more than 23,000 cases were conducted, and 137 people were tested positive.

There were 680,000 cases of nasopharyngeal smear PCR using a sample collected from the nose, accounting for 97% of anonymous tests.

Previously, saliva tests and rapid antigen tests were available, but saliva tests with low preference are excluded during extended periods of operation.

In consideration of cold weather and fatigue of field workers, the operating hours of the inspection office will also be reduced from 9 am to 5 pm on weekdays and from 9 am to 1 pm on weekends.

The number of inspection stations will also be adjusted for each local government according to the inspection performance and site conditions.

We plan to reduce the number of inspection offices in the metropolitan area from 153 to 144 and dispatch additional doctors and nurses.

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Amidst this, a new group infection came out, right?

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Yes, 16 people were confirmed at the local children’s center in Gangbuk-gu, Seoul.

On the 24th of last month, a 20-year-old who used this facility was confirmed after staying here for four days.

Refreshment meetings were also held with other officials, at which time the facility officials and their families were confirmed.

It is a facility that provides care to middle and high school students, and it was found that one middle school student was also confirmed.

The quarantine authorities have closed the facility and are conducting inspections on contacts.

Infections are also appearing in facilities with many elderly people who are susceptible to infection.

A total of 49 people were confirmed at a nursing hospital in Gyeyang-gu, Incheon.

17 workers and 28 inmates were confirmed, and their family members were also infected.

Incheon city plans to quarantine hospitals in the same group and move confirmed patients to nearby hospitals in turn.

Four more people were confirmed at the nursing hospital in Guro-gu, Seoul, where the outbreak has already occurred.

The cumulative confirmed cases amount to 210.

In Songpa-gu, Seoul, 11 people were added at the welfare facility for the disabled, and 71 people have been confirmed so far.

As infections continued in vulnerable facilities like this, the government expanded all-inclusive tests to receive diagnostic tests once a week for workers in nursing and psychiatric hospitals nationwide.

So far, YTN Son Hyo-jeong at the Seoul City Hall Screening Office[[email protected]]is.

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