Input 2021.01.16 16:58
The Central Defense Response Headquarters (Bang Daebon) announced at a regular briefing on the 16th that it will extend 130 inspection stations until the 14th of next month when the special quarantine period (2.1-14) ends during the Lunar New Year holidays.
There are 52 temporary screening stations in Seoul, 70 in Gyeonggi and 8 in Incheon.
According to Bang Dae-bon, 3231, which account for 11% of the 27,911 confirmed cases in the metropolitan area over the past month, were confirmed at the temporary screening office in the metropolitan area.
It means that one out of 10 confirmed patients in the metropolitan area was positive at the temporary screening clinic.
In the metropolitan area, since December 14, last year, temporary screening offices installed in stations or plazas with large floating populations are providing anonymous tests to anyone regardless of symptoms.
With the operation of a temporary screening laboratory, the total amount of inspection has also increased significantly.
In the last month, the total inspection volume in the metropolitan area was 172,000,000, which was 4.7 times that of the previous month (368,000). In addition, the number of inspections conducted at the temporary screening laboratory accounted for 64% of the total metropolitan area inspection volume.
In the metropolitan area, since December 14, last year, temporary screening offices installed in stations or plazas with large floating populations are providing anonymous tests to anyone regardless of symptoms.
Dae-bon Bang explained, “If the epidemiological association with the confirmed case is confirmed, we will first guide the screening clinic to the local public health center and introduce a method of separating it from the general asymptomatic tester in order to prevent delays due to the anonymous test.
Following this, each local government plans to integrate and close inspection offices in consideration of regional epidemic conditions and inspection results to effectively operate and introduce a mobile interview system that can be used for both anonymous and real-name inspections.