Junseok Jeong, Vice Mayor of Jinju City
[아시아경제 영남취재본부 최순경 기자] Jinju-si, Gyeongsangnam-do began to take early measures, such as forming a Task Force (TF) when confirmed cases were followed by a group infection from the sauna.
Jeong Jun-seok, the deputy chief of Jinju City, held a press conference in the city hall briefing room on the 13th and said, “45 confirmed patients were in the hall from yesterday afternoon to this morning.”
Of these, 40 confirmed cases related to the group infection of the’Paros Health Sauna’. Since the first one confirmed on the 9th, a total of 131 people have been confirmed.
This sauna is located in a cluster of apartments and houses, and there are many’moon bath’ users who pay for several months in advance, so there is a high possibility of more confirmed cases.
Jinju City has issued a total ban on gathering at 98 bathing facilities in the area for two weeks from 00:00 on the 13th.
On this day, the’Pearl Bathhouse-related Group Infection Control Countermeasures TF’ was formed to cope with the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) group infection.
The TF consists of five groups, including the situation group, quarantine investigation group, support group, and field response group, and provides personnel support, facility inspection, epidemiological and field investigation, and equipment and material support.
Jinju City also temporarily postponed non-face-to-face visits, which were scheduled to be conducted in step 1.5 of social distancing, by strictly applying quarantine rules to facilities vulnerable to infectious diseases such as nursing homes until the 28th.
In order to block the possibility of potential transmission, it was decided to re-execute free rapid and preemptive tests for all citizens.
Along with this, from the 13th, indoor public sports facilities will be closed, and outdoor public sports facilities will reduce the existing 50% personnel limit to 30%.
The National Pearl Museum, Lee Seongja Museum, Bronze Age Museum, and Pterosaur Footprint Museum are closed until the situation stabilizes.
The four general social welfare centers will stop operating face-to-face programs from the 15th, and initially operate only 50 programs that can be converted into non-face-to-face and non-face-to-face programs.
Deputy Mayor Jung Joon-seok said, “We will do our best to restore the daily lives of citizens through rapid interception of the spread of group infections and epidemiological investigations centered on the TF team.” “Please refrain from moving as much as possible.”
Reporter Choi Soon-gyeong, Yeongnam Coverage Headquarters [email protected]