5 out of 732 people at the Temporary Screening and Inspection Office at Seoul Station were confirmed

Citizens’ warmth in hot coffee On the morning of the 15th, a medical staff is warming up for a short while drinking coffee brought by citizens at a temporary screening test in front of the express terminal station of subway line 3 in Seocho-gu, Seoul. An official in Seocho-gu said, “Citizens are sending coffee and snacks to medical staff suffering from the cold as the temperature drops sharply.” Reporter Hoe-Sung Yang [email protected]-Of the 2240 people who were tested for novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) on the 14th at the Temporary Screening Test in Seoul, at least 5 confirmed cases occurred. Most of the confirmed cases say, “Corona 19-related symptoms, or have not been in contact with a recent confirmed person,” at the laboratory, and appear to be so-called’blinking’ infections.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 15th that “5 out of 732 people who had been tested for Corona 19 at the temporary screening test center in Seoul Station Square in Jung-gu on the 14th were confirmed.” The quarantine authorities said that immediately after confirming the test results, they contacted the mobile phone number they left at the reception desk to inform them of the confirmation.

Of the five confirmed at the Seoul Station Temporary Screening and Inspection Center, two identified as Jung-gu residents will be quarantined as soon as they are assigned beds. If you are tested for Corona 19 at a temporary screening laboratory, unlike general screening clinics, you will return to your daily routine without self-isolation after the test.

Even at the Yongsan Station Temporary Screening Test, two out of 236 people who had been tested for Corona 19 on the 14th were positive on the 15th and went into detailed retest. An official in Yongsan-gu explained, “2 of the citizens who received the rapid antigen test at the test center the previous day were positive,” and “we have completed the collection of Corona 19 samples to improve the precision of the results. On that day, one of the 117 people tested at the Dobong-gu laboratory also tested positive in the rapid antigen test. The quarantine authorities predict that finding the’hidden infected people’ in the local community through this preemptive inspection will determine the success or failure of quarantine in winter. In fact, 23.8% (2208 people) of’blinking’ infections, whose path of infection has not been identified, among the new confirmed cases that have occurred from the 1st of this month to the present. Seoul Mayor Seo Jeong-hyup visited the Temporary Screening Inspection Center at Yongsan Station on the morning of the 15th, and said, “The silent transmission of asymptomatic patients is spreading. did. As a result of preliminary examinations for the general public at 7 municipal hospitals in Seoul on the 8th to 11th, 16 confirmed cases were found.

Citizens visited the temporary screening test center on the 14th and the 15th as a result of concerns about’may I be asymptomatic?’ On the 14th, 873 people visited the temporary screening test center at Seoul Station, where 732 people were tested for Corona 19.

As the demand for preemptive inspections continued, Seoul opened 16 inspection offices in the city on the 14th, and expanded and operated additional inspection offices in 22 on the 15th. In particular, from the 15th, temporary screening and inspection centers were intensively installed near the exits of major subway stations, such as Gangnam Station and Sindorim Station of Subway Line 2, where there are many floating populations. An official from the quarantine authorities said, “A lot of workers are looking for them on their way to work or during lunch.”

At the end of the lunch break, around 1 pm, about 50 people were waiting for their turn at the Temporary Screening and Inspection Office in front of Exit 9 of Gangnam Station on Subway Line 2 in Seocho-gu. Yoonmo (26, female), who wore a thick jumper, said, “I had a break with my colleagues at lunch because an inspection office was set up near the company.” After Yun, three co-workers lined up.

Kim Woo-joo, a professor of infectious medicine at Korea Daeguro Hospital, said, “In situations where group infections are occurring in various places in the community, anyone should be alert that COVID-19 can be confirmed.” You can stop it from spreading.”

Lee So-yeon [email protected]· Kim Tae-eon reporter