Two Schools in Seoul Gangdong and Songpa, All 660 Mobile PCR Tests Negative

All Tested Negative in COVID-19 Screening at Two High Schools on the 6th
28.8% of Songpa District High School Students and 37.7% of Gangdong District High School Students Tested

On the 3rd, a student is undergoing a test at a mobile COVID-19 PCR testing site installed at Seoul Sports Middle and High School in Songpa-gu, Seoul. The Ministry of Education, in consultation with health authorities, has formed teams for each of the 11 education support offices in Seoul to conduct tests starting from the 3rd, visiting schools across the city to test staff and students who wish to be tested. Photo by Joint Press Corps

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education conducted mobile COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests at two schools in Seoul, and all 660 individuals tested negative.

On the 7th, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced that on the 6th, PCR tests were conducted on 231 students and staff at a high school in Songpa-gu and 429 individuals at a high school in Gangdong-gu. The number of people tested accounted for 28.8% and 37.7% of the total population, respectively.

Previously, on the 3rd, tests were conducted at Seoul Sports Middle and High School and a middle school in Gwangjin-gu, with all 702 individuals testing negative.

All 1,362 people tested by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education's mobile specimen collection team received negative results.