Dongbu Detention Center in Songpa-gu, Seoul. Unlike other detention centers with a single-story structure, it is an apartment-style building. News 1
A large-scale collective infection of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) occurred in the eastern detention center in Songpa-gu, Seoul, causing an emergency to the quarantine authorities. The quarantine authorities and the Ministry of Justice are discussing ways to transfer confirmed prisoners to the outside.
According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters (middle script) and the Seoul Metropolitan Government, as of 0 o’clock on the 25th, the cumulative number of confirmed cases nationwide related to Dongbu Detention Center is 514. Of these, 20 detention center employees and 478 detainees. On the 24th alone, 288 people were confirmed.
The Ministry of Justice said, “As a result of the second full test on the 23rd, 288 additional people were confirmed as a result of the second full test on 416 employees and 2021 prisoners who were negative during the first full test.” Earlier on the 18th, 187 employees and prisoners were confirmed at the first full inspection.
The script estimated that the structure of an apartment-type building, the number of people exceeding the capacity, and indoor activities caused a group infection.
Taeho Yoon, head of the Central Accident Control Headquarters, said in a regular briefing on the 25th, “The other detention center is in the form of a single-story building, but the Eastern detention center is an apartment-type building consisting of 12 stories and 5 buildings. Although this is done, most of the lives in Eastern detention centers were done indoors.”
On the afternoon of the 20th, an official in a quarantine uniform is talking at the Eastern Detention Center in Seoul, where a new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) confirmed as a group. Reporter Woo Sang-jo
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The capacity of the Dongbu detention center is 2070, but it has a high density of 2412 (as of December 13). “There were cases where the confirmed patients from the 1st examination were quarantined and housed in one building, but the number of private rooms was insufficient, so it seems that there were cases where several confirmed patients were held together.”
An official from the Ministry of Justice said, “Overcrowding is the biggest cause.” “It is good to transfer to the outside, but the lack of life treatment centers in Seoul also became a problem. There seems to be an infection between prisoners.”
“It is similar to the situation of an infected person trapped inside a ship in Japan. “If you leave the prisoners alone, it will spread more,” he said. “The prisoners should be transferred to the southern detention center or the Seoul detention center.”
According to the status of acceptance of national correctional facilities by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which was submitted to the National Assembly by the Ministry of Justice in 2017, the average acceptance rate of domestic correctional facilities (actual capacity compared to capacity) was 121.8%, among member countries following Hungary (131.8%). It was second highest.
A new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) in Seoul East Detention Center in Songpa-gu, Seoul, where a large-scale group infection occurred. Reporter Woo Sang-jo
This means that a facility that can accommodate 100 people is overheating more than 20 people. In a cell compared to a’chicken coop’, you have to sleep’Kaljam’, so the infection rate is fast.
The quarantine authorities are quarantined in one detention center and managed in the form of a life treatment center.However, as many confirmed cases emerged from the 2nd full test, it will be decided soon after discussing with the Ministry of Justice how to transfer them to the outside. . It is expected to be a method of being held in a new detention center or admitted to an empty life treatment center.
Quarantine authorities and Ministry of Justice to discuss transfer of confirmed cases
The first confirmed case of Dongbu Detention Center was a high school student living in Songpa-gu, confirmed on the 27th of last month. Since then, the infection has increased by spreading to the family of students, co-workers, prisoners, and acquaintances of family members working in detention centers.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government examined 6006 people and revealed that 509 were positive and 5497 were negative, excluding the first confirmed. The city temporarily closed the prison cell where the confirmed person came and disinfected it by quarantine, but there is a possibility that additional confirmed cases will come out considering shared life and incubation period. The quarantine authorities thought that the possibility of external transmission was low because the movement of prisoners related to the outbreak of the Eastern detention center was suspended.
Corona 19 cumulative confirmed patients since August. Graphic = Younghee Kim [email protected]
The script said that it provided emergency quarantine supplies and budgets, including 9 medical personnel and 5,500 sets of protective clothing, to the Dongbu detention center. The Ministry of Justice is conducting special inspections for 50 correctional facilities nationwide.
In the future, new prisoners in all correctional facilities will be quarantined for three weeks after undergoing a corona19 diagnostic test. The quarantine period has been increased by one week from the current two weeks. If a test is made again before quarantine is released, and a negative sound is produced, the existing prisoner is stayed with.
Former President Lee Myung-bak, who was imprisoned in the Eastern Detention Center, was found negative in the first test and was admitted to Seoul National University Hospital to treat the underlying disease and did not receive the second test.
Reporters Eunkyung Choi and Minsang Kim [email protected]