Suwon Vice Mayors Cho Chung-sik and Cho Mu-young Conduct On-Site Inspections of Multi-Use Facilities

First Vice Mayor Cho Chung-sik of Suwon City (right) inspects the temporary screening testing site at Suwon Station on March 19. (Photo=Suwon City)

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-sung] First Vice Mayor Cho Chung-sik, Second Vice Mayor Cho Mu-young, and senior officials of Suwon City visited high-density multi-use facilities on March 18-19 to verify compliance with quarantine guidelines.

On March 19, First Vice Mayor Cho Chung-sik visited the temporary screening testing site at Suwon Station—crowded with foreigners receiving COVID-19 diagnostic tests—as well as sports facilities, daycare centers, and department stores to confirm compliance with special quarantine measures. Second Vice Mayor Cho Mu-young inspected bathhouses and restaurants on March 18.

The four district office heads and heads of various departments and bureaus also inspected vulnerable facilities with high infection risk and multi-use facilities with high foot traffic on March 18-19.

In accordance with the extension of the second phase of social distancing and the government's strengthened special quarantine guidelines for the Seoul Metropolitan Area, Suwon City will conduct special quarantine inspections targeting high-density multi-use facilities through March 28.

To preemptively prevent a fourth wave of major outbreaks due to the new school semester and increased spring outdoor activities, the city will intensively inspect compliance with quarantine rules at 29,673 facilities across 28 key management sectors by field within the city.

Key inspection items included ▲facility managers' implementation of quarantine rules ▲temperature screening for users ▲compliance with mask-wearing and other disease prevention quarantine rules ▲installation of electronic entry-exit logs in facilities ▲provision of quarantine supplies such as hand sanitizers. Facility officials were notified of administrative measures imposed in accordance with a zero-tolerance principle when quarantine rules are violated.

When quarantine rule violations are detected, facility managers face administrative fines of up to 3 million won, and users face fines of 100,000 won. Violating businesses are excluded from eligibility for disaster relief funds, living support funds, and loss compensation benefits.

Meanwhile, the city has implemented independent administrative orders on quarantine rule compliance for childcare teachers since March 16 and is conducting special inspections of childcare facilities to prevent ongoing mass infections in daycare centers.

Mayor Yeom Tae-young of Suwon has actively worked to prevent mass infections in advance, including requesting the government to prioritize childcare teachers who care for infants and toddlers—for whom mask-wearing is difficult—as priority recipients for vaccine inoculation.