한산해진 대구 선별 진료소...여전히 ‘해외 유입’ 사투 중인 의료진<br /><br />Despite the dramatic drop new COVID-19 infections, there is one city not taking any chances .<br />Once the epicenter of South Korea's coronavirus outbreak, the triage centers in Daegu are mostly quiet.<br />It's a sharp contrast from two months ago when more than 8-thousand tests took place in a single day.<br />But, medical staff and public officials are still hard at work as the city shifts its focus to containing imported cases.<br />Our Lee Kyung-eun files this from Daegu.<br />Here at Dongdaegu Train Station, central Daegu, a city official is waiting at the platform for the people arriving from Incheon International Airport.<br />These people are asymptomatic arrivals who did not get tested at the airport.<br />Instead, the city of Daegu is testing every single one of them, after being transported via KTX high-speed train in specially designated cars.<br />The officer will escort entrants to a triage center right across from the station, which keeps track of their travel schedules based on ticket purchase records.<br />At a separate booth, doctors are on standby to take swab samples.<br />But, with a lot of the people arriving being foreign nationals, there are more things to consider.<br />"We do have translation services, and the questionnaires are provided in multiple languages, but we often have to use body language."<br />"Once the testing is done, entrants can return home, either by taking their own private cars or by taking these special taxis prepared by the city."<br />The taxis run according to special operational rules, and with the drivers having to be fully kitted out in protective gear.<br />"We have to constantly sterilize people's baggage as well as the cars. And air conditioning is not allowed, to prevent the virus circulating. We open the windows instead."<br />Then, after the entrants' 2-week mandatory quarantine nears its end, a team of medical staff will conduct a home-visit for a second test using a moving triage center. But, for the medical workers, it brings about its own complications.<br />"It's hard when neighbors come and ask us which house we are visiting for testing, obviously we can't tell them. Also, most people want to keep things a secret so they ask us to get changed in areas that are out of site like on the stairs in apartment blocks."<br />With this extensive quarantine system, people arriving into the country are completely segregated from the moment they arrive to when they enter their homes.<br />Lee Kyung-eun, Arirang News, Daegu.<br />
