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During the three weeks that the metropolitan area screening center was installed, the number of so-called “confirmed quiet patients” exceeded 2,000. The quarantine authorities decided to operate the inspection station for two more weeks in line with the extended social distancing. Connect with reporters on the site. Reporter Son Hyo-jeong! It has been approximately 3 weeks since the temporary screening office was established in the metropolitan area. What is the situation now? Yes, I kept seeing citizens visiting the inspection office for a while. The temporary control offices installed in the metropolitan area were originally until yesterday, but as social distancing spread, they were operational for another two weeks. Even if there is no history of symptoms or contact with a confirmed person, anyone can get tested for free until the 17th. There are 188 detection stations of this type 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 inspection center of the metropolitan area was in operation. Yesterday, more than 23,000 cases were carried out and 137 people tested positive. There were 680,000 cases of PCR nasopharyngeal smear using a sample taken from the nose, representing 97% of anonymous tests. Previously, saliva tests and rapid antigen tests were available, but saliva tests with low preference are excluded during prolonged periods of operation. Taking into account the cold weather and the fatigue of the 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 inspection performance and site conditions. We plan to reduce the number of inspection offices in the metropolitan area from 153 to 144 and send additional doctors and nurses. In the middle of this, a new group infection emerged, right? 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. Refresher meetings were also held with other officials, at which time the facility officials and their families were confirmed. It is a facility that caters to middle and high school students, and a high school student was also found to be confirmed. Quarantine authorities have closed the facility and are conducting contact inspections. Infections are also showing up in facilities with many older 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 families were also infected. The city of Incheon plans to quarantine hospitals in the same group and transfer confirmed patients to nearby hospitals in turn. Four more people were confirmed at the Guro-gu nursing hospital, Seoul, where the outbreak has already occurred. The cumulative confirmed cases amount to 210. In Songpa-gu, Seoul, 11 people were added to the social assistance center for the disabled, and so far 71 people have been confirmed. As infections continued in vulnerable facilities like this one, the government expanded all-inclusive testing so that workers at nursing and psychiatric hospitals across the country undergo diagnostic tests once a week. So far, YTN Son Hyo-jeong at the Seoul City Council Projection Office[[email protected]]is. ※ ‘Your report becomes news’ YTN awaits your valuable report.
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