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Given this situation, how you spend the Liberation Day holiday was also an important variable in the Corona situation. Even Prime Minister Kim Bu-gyeom asked to refrain from traveling as much as possible during the holiday period, but it was found that the amount of vehicle movement on the highway did not change significantly. Confirmation was confirmed at the temporary screening test station installed at the highway rest area.
Correspondent Ho-Won Choi.
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is a service area in Yongin on the upbound line of the Yeongdong Expressway.
Vehicles entering the metropolitan area are lined up.
Citizens also continue to visit the temporary screening and inspection station installed inside the rest area.
[Im Jong-hyuk / Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do: This time during the holiday season (at vacation) for about 5 days, when I enter the company, the people in the company may be anxious, so I got tested in advance… .]
There are four upbound rest stops where screening stations are installed, including Yongin, Icheon, Anseong, and Hwaseong.
The quarantine authorities said that 5,97 people have been tested at these rest stops for three days since the 13th, and 11 of them have been confirmed.
Previously, the government requested to refrain from moving during the Liberation Day holiday, and the national highway traffic was 4.79 million vehicles on Saturday and 4.41 million vehicles on Sunday, exceeding the expectations of the Road Corporation.
The government has urged people to be tested for COVID-19 before returning to work after a vacation, even at rest stops.