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Not only heavy snow, but also severe cold yesterday (26th) tormented people today. In particular, the corona test center is cold and people who have to wait outside have a hard time, but it was a tough day for the medical staff and guides who have to fight the corona every day.



Correspondent Choi Seon-gil covered this news.



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is a long line at the screening station in front of Yongsan Station in Seoul.



I try to put on a thick coat and go inside the plastic tent, but I can't escape the cold.



[Song Mi-hee / Yongsan-gu, Seoul: It was too cold on the weekend, so I went out and thought I could catch a cold, so I came out today, but it got better than the weekend, but it's still a little cold.]



Even though the waiting citizens are suffering, the medical staff and guides who test and guide all day are suffering from severe cold. It's hard to see how hard you are.



I try to thaw my frozen hands in front of the stove and put a hot pack on it, but to no avail.



[Byun Ye-jin / Yongsan Station Temporary Screening Center Medical Staff: My hands are so frozen that it is often difficult to collect samples. .]



Another screening test site that I visited in the afternoon, where there is no windshield, the medical staff who conduct the test have no choice but to be struck by the wind.



He says that the face shield is damp, and every time he washes his hands with an antiseptic, his bones ache.



[Kang Hyeon-joo / Seoul Station temporary screening center medical staff: Hand sanitizer, disinfectant spray, disinfectant tissue, etc. are all frozen, and it is actually colder if you even sanitize your hands.

That's really hard.] As the



cold wave continued, some inspection stations went into shortened operation until today, but the intensity of work became stronger as the time decreased.



[Cha Jong-chan/Guide to the public health center in Gangseo-gu, Seoul: The hot pack cools down quickly, so my hands and feet are very cold.

The reason for my red ears is that if I wear a hat, I have to listen to people, but I can't wear a hat because I can't hear well.]



[Lee Jin-woo / Medical staff at Gangseo-gu, Seoul health center: Right now (the stove) broke down for a while, so I had to go out and do something cold inside anyway. My hands are so cold because it looks like it's going to be cut off a bit...

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If there was a drive-through inspection station, it would have been better to get tested in the cold, but at the beginning of this month, most of the inspection stations were changed to general inspection stations due to the inconvenience of traffic and the risk of safety accidents.



In a situation where the spread of the corona virus is not slowing down, it seems urgent to prepare measures for the cold at the screening test center in winter.



(Video coverage: Chan-soo Lee, video editing: So Ji-hye, VJ: Jun-young Lee)