Uiwang City Holds Countermeasures Meeting on Preventing Novel Coronavirus Spread Among Women and Children

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Uiwang City held a countermeasures meeting on the 3rd in the city hall conference room to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus among women and children.

The city shared the following measures with officials from women-related contracted facilities, healthy family and multicultural family support centers, child protection facilities, and community children's centers to prevent the spread of the infection: ▲thorough mandatory sterilization and disinfection by facility ▲wearing masks ▲emphasizing the importance of handwashing ▲disinfection of school buses and compliance with precautions ▲guidance on work processing for social welfare facility workers.

At the meeting, manuals on response to confirmed novel coronavirus cases were reviewed once more, and events planned for February were recommended for suspension and completely cancelled. Visits for counseling at some facilities were decided to be replaced with phone consultations, and tasks such as providing multicultural family programs were decided to be postponed.

Child residential facilities and community children's centers reviewed precautions including thorough meal hygiene management, guidance for facility visits after a 14-day passage from overseas visitors from China and other countries, and thorough prevention of infections among facility children and workers. Each facility requested the city to supply masks, hand sanitizers, and sterilization disinfectants, which are currently in short supply for infection prevention.

Additionally, following a countermeasures meeting with officials from 136 daycare centers in the area on the 2nd, fever checks during daycare drop-off and pick-up, prohibiting outside access, and refraining from field trips were communicated as prevention rules. In response to recently confirmed cases in nearby cities, the city decided to close daycare centers from the 3rd to the 9th.

Lee Yun-ju, head of Uiwang City's Women and Children Division, stated, "We will continue to make all-out efforts to ensure that women and children are not harmed by the novel coronavirus," and urged, "Related city facilities should do their best for the safety of women and children."