[사회]Over 90 foreigners confirmed in Dongducheon…”Including workers in Incheon, Yangju, and Bucheon”

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Over two days in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province, more than 90 foreigners were confirmed.

Among the confirmed cases, workers working in Incheon city, Yangju, Gyeonggi and Bucheon areas were also found to be included.

Reporter Park Hee-jae reports.

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A temporary screening clinic in front of a leather factory.

Foreign workers working in factories are subjected to diagnostic tests in turn.

This is a full screening of Corona 19 for foreigners working or residing in Dongducheon City.

[A 씨 / 외국인 노동자 : (언제 검사하라는 통보를 받으셨어요?) 오늘 검사하러 오라고 해서 왔어요. (오늘 오전에? 아침에?) 오후에 들었어요.]

Earlier, after a group infection of foreign workers occurred on the 17th of last month at a plastic factory in Namyangju, other local governments began preemptive inspections for foreigners.

In this process, a bunch of infections were confirmed.

With the outbreak of group infection in the hall, the number of examiners who visited the screening clinics here increased more than three times than usual.

Many of these are foreign workers.

It is said that most of the confirmed foreigners are asymptomatic.

It was investigated that a large number of residents in certain concentrated areas in Dongducheon were included, and there were also workers working in Yangju, Bucheon, and Incheon, Gyeonggi Province.

Currently, Dongducheon City employs 15 epidemiological investigators and 10 English interpreters to conduct epidemiological investigations.

[최용덕 / 동두천시장 : 우리 동두천시에 외국인이 많이 분포돼 있는 동네가 있어요. 이들의 직장은 양주, 부천, 인천, 뭐 산발적으로 다 있어요.]

In order to prevent further spread, Dongducheon City decided to postpone the entrance and opening of kindergartens and elementary, middle and high schools in the building for two days.

The Ministry of Employment and Labor has hired more than five foreign workers to check whether or not the quarantine regulations are properly followed at over 11,000 workplaces across the country with dormitories.

It is a plan to complete all inspections within this month.

This is YTN Park Hee-jae.

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