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The city of Seoul has decided to thoroughly quarantine the facilities and increase the number of training workers for facilities for seniors vulnerable to novel coronavirus (Corona 19) infection, such as living in nursing homes and nursing homes.
On the 20th, Seoul City Citizen Health Bureau Director Park Yoomi announced a plan to “strengthen infection control in nursing homes” through an online information session. Director Park explained, “As group infections continue to occur in nursing homes recently, infection control experts are supporting ‘personalized infection control’ in 221 nursing homes.”
On December 30 last year, at a nursing hospital in Guro-gu, Seoul, hospital officials wearing D-level protective clothing are being tested for a new coronavirus (Corona 19) infection. Yunhap news
The first thing to implement is online consulting. The plan is to use ZOOM to educate nursing home workers and increase the ability to manage infectious diseases through interactive questions and answers. Director Park added, “After consulting with the person in charge of infection control in nursing homes, we will gradually expand education to those vulnerable to infection, such as infection control staff in nursing homes, nursing homes. day and night protection and nursing care workers. ” .
In addition, when an infected person emerges, the Seoul Metropolitan City immediate response team provides on-site consulting services to verify the structure of a nursing facility and then plan quarantine management, such as separating the path from the contact person. Director Park explained, “It will include on-site infection control training for workers and suggestions to improve the vulnerability of nursing facilities.”
But the reality is … Infection of the group ‘insufficient use of a mask’
Despite these plans from Seoul, group infections in nursing facilities continue. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, at 0 o’clock on this day, the number of people infected as a group in the Seongdong-gu nursing homes amounted to 30 people. As a preventive inspection, a person at the facility was confirmed on the 9th.
Corona 19 at the facility was already spreading, so four people, including nursing home residents, nursing care workers, and visitors, were confirmed to be infected on the 19th. “The building was used as a nursing home and a life center for the elderly who lived alone, “explained the Seoul Metropolitan Government. “People who could move between the residents of the nursing home used physical therapy rooms located on different floors.”
The entire building used an elevator, and showers and toilets were shared in the premises of the nursing home, and the infection spread to the first confirmed person → resident → resident and family.
Graphic image of the infection of the main corona group of the nursing hospital. Reporter Jaemin Shin
In the Jongno-gu nursing home, a total of 11 people were infected. On the 19th, two additional nursing home residents were confirmed after the family of a nursing home official tested positive for the first time on the 10th. In this nursing home, the space between the beds was 1.5 m away and there were separate toilets in each room, but inmates’ masks were found not to be worn properly.
Meanwhile, the city of Seoul announced that 143 new cases have been confirmed as of today. It has supported 100 people in the last two weeks. The cumulative number of confirmed patients in Seoul was 22,859. There were two deaths and the cumulative death toll was 279.
Reporter Kim Hyun-ye [email protected]
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