In response to the spread of infection in Seoul prison, the Minister of Justice and the Prime Minister's orders to increase the number of epidemiological investigators in Cheongsong prison, Malaysia and Indonesia expanded parole.
On the 2nd, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on the 2nd that under the direction of Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun, who visited the site for the spread of infection at the Dongbu Detention Center, the Ministry of Health and Welfare dispatched an emergency on-site response team to the Dongbu Detention Center on the 3rd, and that the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would increase the number of dispatched epidemiological investigators.
After the outbreak of a coronavirus outbreak in prisons in Malaysia, the head of correctional headquarters Zulkifli Omar said, "Among those sentenced to prison sentences of less than one year with relatively minor offenses, prisoners with less than three months left from the prison were selected for parole," said "People who passed strict screening. On October 19 last year, Yonhap News reported, citing foreign media, and announced that Indonesia is sequentially paroleing 50,000 prisoners who served two-thirds of the sentences in prisons nationwide for corona infection.
As of today (2nd), as of 0 o'clock, Prime Minister Chung and Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae visited the site when 982 confirmed cases were confirmed at correctional facilities nationwide and 14 additional confirmed cases the day before Dongbu Detention Center visited the site. The 5th total survey was revealed on 122 people.
As of the 2nd, there were 937 confirmed prisoners and employees of the Eastern Detention Center, and a total of 958 family acquaintances.
On the 2nd, Justice Minister Chu said on a Facebook page on the 2nd, “The Seoul Eastern Detention Center strictly separates and accommodates the prisoner of the confirmed, close contact, and non-confirmed. By conducting an examination, we will transfer non-confirmed persons to other correctional institutions to significantly lower the acceptance rate at the Eastern Detention Center.” On December 25, last year, about 400 people were transferred to Cheongsong prison in Gyeongbuk.
On the 25th of last month, Prime Minister Chung, who presided over the main scripture meeting, decided to transfer about 400 people to the Cheongsong prison in an isolated area surrounded by Mt. Gwangdeok, and on the 28th transferred the confirmed prisoners of the Seoul Eastern Detention Center by 5 large buses.
Prime Minister Chung said at a company headquarters meeting on the 29th, "Yesterday, 233 confirmed cases were added at the eastern detention center, and so far, a total of 757 people have been infected". "Since most of the prisoners are, the possibility of further transmission to the community is low, but full inspection The number of confirmed cases may increase if the program proceeds again. The Ministry of Justice and the quarantine authorities ask for all efforts to take emergency quarantine measures so that there are no additional occurrences, and to come up with measures to prevent recurrence."
Earlier, on the 18th and 23rd of last month, the Seoul East Detention Center conducted two full investigations on all inmates and employees, revealing that there were a total of 509 people, including 488 inmates and 21 employees who were confirmed, and then continued to increase to 940 people. .