Daejeon City recently announced on the 6th that it ranked first nationwide at the ‘2023 Infectious Disease Management Conference COVID-19 Response White Paper Evaluation’ held in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province.
Hosted by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, this conference was attended by 243 local governments nationwide, over 1,100 academic professors, experts, and public officials, and included ▲special lectures and academic events on infectious disease management ▲awards for infectious disease management contributors and outstanding institutions ▲COVID-19 response white paper evaluation, among other programs.
At this event, Daejeon City received the Gold Prize in the ‘COVID-19 Response White Paper Evaluation’ with its white paper titled ‘The 1,197-Day Journey of COVID-19.’
Daejeon City’s white paper received high scores for its detailed structure, vivid descriptions centered on response cases, and the establishment of a quarantine system.
The white paper includes the status of COVID-19 occurrences and responses in Daejeon from the time the first confirmed COVID-19 case was reported in the region (January 21, 2020) to the downgrade of the alert level (from Severe to Caution), covering quarantine and medical responses, economic support and livelihood stabilization, and post-COVID policy recommendations.
The Silver Prize was awarded to Namhae, Gyeongnam and Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi, while the Bronze Prize went to Gongju, Chungnam; Seo-gu, Incheon; and Muju, Jeonbuk.
Nam Si-deok, Director of the Citizen Sports and Health Bureau of Daejeon City, said, “The participation of multiple departments in producing the white paper, which recorded the vivid situations on the front lines of the COVID-19 response, led to this excellent result. Daejeon City will share COVID-19 response cases with medical institutions and local governments nationwide to help with future emerging infectious disease occurrences and response situations.”
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