Free testing service for travelers with respiratory symptoms at Gimpo and Jeju airports
Feb 17, 2025
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Through this pilot project, which will be implemented at Gimpo and Jeju Airports, overseas travelers with respiratory symptoms can receive free tests for three types of respiratory infections (animal influenza human infection (AI), COVID-19, and influenza virus A/B) at the quarantine center if they wish to enter the country.
Previously, tests and quarantines were conducted only when the epidemiological association of first-class quarantine infectious diseases such as Ebola virus, Marburg fever, Lhasa fever, Crimian Kongohemorrhagic fever, plague, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), animal influenza human infection, and swine influenza was confirmed during the quarantine stage, but even if there is no epidemiological association, symptomatic travelers voluntarily report and return home after testing.
You can receive the test results by your mobile phone or email, and if it is positive, you can receive a positive confirmation from the quarantine center and receive National Health Insurance care benefits from medical institutions. In the case of COVID-19 and influenza virus A/B positive patients, medical care benefits can be recognized when administering drugs (product name: Paxlovid tablet, Tamiflu capsule, Rerenzarotadisk, etc.) within the scope of permission.
Ji Young-mi, head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, `We expect the airport alone to detect the influx of foreign infectious diseases and new and mutant pathogens into Korea early through the pilot project of the respiratory infectious disease test service, and to use medical institutions through rapid testing in the quarantine stage if foreigners have suspected respiratory symptoms.'
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
