Yongin City Conducts Preemptive COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests for 5,200 Staff and Community Leaders

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun] Yongin City announced on the 22nd that it will preemptively conduct COVID-19 diagnostic tests for approximately 5,200 people, including all municipal employees and community leaders, to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The initiative aims to proactively identify asymptomatic cases within City Hall and the community to prevent regional spread.

Test subjects include on-site workers from City Hall, district offices, business divisions, township/village offices and staff members, temporary workers, and alternative service personnel, as well as approximately 5,200 community leaders from 35 townships, villages, and districts who frequently contact residents.

They can receive diagnostic tests from March 23 to 26 at four temporary screening stations set up across three districts. Each department and township/village will autonomously undergo testing within the designated period.

Meanwhile, since February 8, the city has implemented measures requiring a certain number of employees per department to work from home as mandatory to prevent operational gaps when confirmed cases occur.

Additionally, since April last year, the city has been separately operating comprehensive civil complaint consultation counters at City Hall and district offices to ensure visitor safety and prevent COVID-19 spread within the government buildings.

Yongin Mayor Baek Gun-ki said, "We will do our utmost to ensure there are no administrative gaps by implementing strong preventive activities so that the city can fully fulfill its role as the control tower for infectious disease response in the community."