[ad_1]
[앵커]
The metropolitan area screening office, which looks for asymptomatic infections in advance, will work for another two weeks until the 17th. Taking into account the fatigue of the medical personnel on site, the examination time and the number of laboratories will be adjusted. Connect with reporters on the site. Reporter Son Hyo-jeong! Temporary detection offices in the metropolitan area will be expanded in the future, right? Even today, the first Monday of the new year, the inspection office was opened. The temporary screening office in the metropolitan area, which was originally in place until yesterday, was operational for two more weeks as social distancing spread. Even if there is no history of symptoms and contact with a confirmed person, anyone can get tested for free until the 17th. So far, 188 inspection stations of this type have been installed in 153 locations in the metropolitan area and 35 locations in the non-metropolitan area. The quarantine authorities assessed that in the last three weeks, when the inspection center of the metropolitan area was in operation, up to 2,000 confirmed cases were found in advance. There were 680,000 cases of PCR nasopharyngeal smear using a sample taken from the nose, representing 97% of anonymous tests. There were around 4,000 PCR tests of aliva samples using acupuncture points and around 12,000 rapid antigen tests that resulted in results in as little as 30 minutes. During the long period, the low-preference saliva PCR test is excluded from the test method. 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 midst of this, a new group infection appeared in a metropolitan area nursing hospital, right? Infections are showing up in facilities with many older people who are susceptible to infection. In a nursing hospital in Gyeyang-gu, Incheon, a group infection was found in which 43 people were confirmed. Seven people, including caregivers and nursing assistants, were confirmed and given a full exam, and 36 more were infected in one day. The city of Incheon plans to quarantine hospitals in the same group and transfer confirmed patients to nearby hospitals in turn. Six more people were confirmed at Guro-gu Nursing Hospital, Seoul, where the outbreak has already occurred. With 4 patients, 4 residents and 1 worker, the confirmed cumulative number was 206. Eleven people were also added at the Wellness Center for the Disabled in Songpa-gu, Seoul, and the cumulative number of confirmed patients has risen to 71 so far. Meanwhile, on December 26 last year, the number of infections at the Icheon distribution center, where the first confirmed person was confirmed, rose to 97. Thirteen more people were confirmed and 81 employees and 16 relatives and acquaintances were infected. 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.
