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KMID : 1143420180110160497
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Public Health Weekly Report
2018 Volume.11 No. 16 p.497 ~ p.503
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Quarantine Preparedness & Responses to 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and Paralympics Games
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Hwang Ji-Hye
Son Tae-Jong
Park Gi-Jun
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Abstract
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For the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and Paralympics Games in Korea from February 9 through March 18, we prepared possible quarantine countermeasures about 6 months prior to the competition in order to prevent the inflow of
emerging infectious disease and to respond promptly to the suspected cases with infectious disease in collaboration with
relevant institutions for training of quarantine officers, and on-site inspection of quarantine stations. During the two
international events, the national quarantine stations performed quarantine inspection for a total of 5,503 passengers from
14 countries: 4,725 persons from ‘quarantinable disease risk areas’, 750 persons from the DPRK, 28 transit passengers from overseas. Among them, although 184 entrants with symptoms such as fever and diarrhea were detected, including 6
athletes for Olympics and Paralympics, there were no suspected cases of quarantinable diseases. To protect the public’s
health from emerging infectious diseases, the Korea Centers for Disease Control is striving for establishing more efficient
and advanced quarantine system to enable prompt quarantine response to international events at the point of entry to
Korea.
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KEYWORD
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2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Paralympics, Quarantine, Emerging infectious disease
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