Walking-Through Screening Clinic Installed in Yeouido... List of 3,000 People Secured from Academy Building

[Asia Economy Reporter Haeyoung Kwon] Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul announced on the 30th that it has urgently installed a walking-through screening clinic at Yeouido Ankara Park for the rapid testing of people in the Yeouido area where the spread of COVID-19 occurred within an academy.

On the 28th, a total of three people, including an instructor and two students, tested positive for COVID-19 at Yonsei Naro Academy located in the Hongwoo Building in Yeouido.

The Hongwoo Building houses about 50 businesses such as academies and private tutoring centers. Yeongdeungpo-gu has secured a list of 2,952 students and instructors from the academies and tutoring centers in this building and plans to provide free testing to all of them. Additionally, everyone who visited the Hongwoo Building from the 25th to the 27th will also be required to undergo COVID-19 testing.

Yeongdeungpo-gu also recommended voluntary closure of all businesses within the Hongwoo Building until the 7th of next month.