All Foreign Workers in Gyeongi Province Ordered to Take a COVID-19 Test

Due to a surge in coronavirus cases among the foreign population in Gyeongi province all foreign workers must now take a free of charge COVID-19 test by March 22nd:

The shopping street at Dongducheon in Gyeonggi Province is almost empty, March 2. All foreigners in the province have been ordered to take the COVID-19 test before March 22. Yonhap

All foreign workers in Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, were ordered Monday to take the coronavirus test before March 22, as part of authorities’ efforts to cope with a recent spike in COVID-19 cases in foreigner-dense areas and workplaces.

The latest administrative order from the provincial government of Gyeonggi was delivered to about 85,000 foreign workers in the nation’s most populous province via their employers, officials said.

Under the order, the migrant workers hired by some 25,000 workplaces with at least one foreign employee are obliged to take the virus test between Monday and March 22, they said.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but the article said that 151 foreign workers in Dongducheon tested positive for the coronavirus. That explains why U.S. soldiers at Camp Casey currently have a travel ban on them.

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setnaffa
setnaffa
3 years ago

The “Camp One” and “Chicken Tour” sound at once attractive and repellent…

This needs more elicidation from our local correspondents and/pr folks who know where the photo was taken…

Looks like a lot of change in signage from 2018 to whenever the photo was taken: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.9154952,127.0568126,3a,86.6y,315.39h,79.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seMKMXC4B-kCMiD8sQf4cJg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
3 years ago

“Due to a surge in coronavirus cases among the foreign population in Gyeongi province”

Select those which apply:

___ heavier smokers than Koreans

___ dense living and working conditions

___ wretched animals clinging to the perpetual filth and squalor of their shìthole countries

___ fake surge to detract from nonsensical government policy which targets clubs, bars, and resturaunts (<2% of cases) instead of churches (33% of cases)… as well as having no real policy for the other big contributors of prisons, hospitals, and rest homes.

___ not enough kimchee in diet

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