Yongin City Deploys Emergency Reserve Fund to Contain Infectious Disease

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hun] Yongin City announced on the 6th that it is mobilizing disaster and emergency reserve funds to focus on containing the novel coronavirus infection.

The city plans to use the budget for purchasing masks and hand sanitizers to be distributed to vulnerable populations such as children and the elderly, and for disinfecting and quarantine operations at multi-use facilities.

It will also use the funds to purchase promotional materials for infectious disease prevention and management and essential items such as tympanic thermometers needed for managing people in self-quarantine, and to provide protective suits and quarantine supplies to screening clinics, police stations, and fire departments.

Baek Kun-gi, Mayor of Yongin City, stated, "In this global crisis situation, we decided to deploy emergency reserves to protect citizen safety," and added, "We will supply masks and hand sanitizers so that citizens can feel reassured, and continue to disinfect multi-use facilities such as markets and subway stations."

Separately, since the 3rd, the city has been making advance preparations by grasping the status of Chinese international students at 10 universities within its jurisdiction.

While the government recommended postponing the start of classes within four weeks, if foreign students enter the country, the city plans to maintain an organic cooperation system with each university to rapidly share information and respond so that the disease does not spread into the local community.

To this end, the city requested that each university thoroughly manage foreign students and immediately report to the relevant health centers if there are abnormalities such as fever.

Meanwhile, the city is conducting emergency inspections of youth facilities including youth training centers, youth training halls, and culture centers to ensure the safety of vulnerable children and teenagers, and has decided to close them from the 5th to the 9th.

The youth training center sledding slope, which was scheduled to operate until the 24th, closed early on the 4th, and the Yongin, Naegi, Woncheon, Wonsam, Yangji, and Baekam study rooms will be temporarily closed from the 6th to the 15th.

If confirmed cases occur within the city, the city has established infectious disease response guidelines for daycare centers, including immediately closing all 920 daycare centers in the area.

The city has provided prevention guidelines to all daycare centers and distributed 2,000 hand sanitizers to maintain personal hygiene. It also urged daycare centers to intensively disinfect their interiors and shuttle vehicles.

Each daycare center is conducting thorough preventive management by measuring children's body temperatures upon arrival, checking hand disinfection and mask-wearing, and other measures on a daily basis.