[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] The Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education announced on the 27th that it will support disinfectors for teaching materials and educational tools to all 334 public and private kindergartens in the region in preparation for the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and various infectious diseases.
The total support fund for purchasing disinfectors for teaching materials and educational tools is over 500 million KRW, with 1.5 million KRW allocated per kindergarten.
Last year, the Office of Education supported 637 infection prevention safety helpers in all kindergartens and has been providing quarantine supplies such as thermal cameras, masks, hand sanitizers, and non-contact thermometers.
Superintendent Kang Eun-hee pledged, "In 2021, we will do our best to create kindergartens that are safer than outside the kindergarten and kindergartens where people can feel secure from COVID-19 by working together with the educational community."
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