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While the number of corona19 confirmed patients in Seoul is breaking the record every day, the city of Seoul has issued an “emergency prescription” calling it a “crisis of despair.”
Seoul Mayor Seo Jeong-hyup held an online emergency briefing for Corona 19 on the 4th, saying, “We will stop in Seoul after 9pm,” and announced more tightened quarantine measures than the current stage 2. .
He stressed that “it is a preventive emergency measure to suspend movement and activities except for the minimum economic and social activities necessary to live.”
Urgent measures announced by the city are measures to close shops, cinemas, PC cafes, game rooms, reading rooms, study cafes, amusement parks, beauty and beauty businesses, marts, department stores and public facilities after 9 pm for two weeks from 5 to 18. This includes a total suspension of operations and a 30% reduction in public transportation, such as buses and subways, after 9 pm.
The ‘stores’, which are included in this measure, refer to stores with a size greater than 300m2 regardless of the type of business.
The city said: “Small convenience stores of less than 300m2 and restaurant packaging and delivery are allowed so that basic necessities can be purchased.”
However, when the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s countermeasures were announced, skepticism about the effects arose.
In the realtime comment window of the YouTube channel where the Seoul briefing was broadcast live, “Stage 2.99?”, “Why can’t I talk about it because it’s step 3?”, “No can I get the coronavirus before 9 pm? ” In the past, negative reactions such as “you can go” have decreased.
In fact, the rush hour, where most people hang out, is unlikely to change significantly.
The city said that the city council, district offices and affiliated offices will implement the ‘half-house work’ and ‘differential transport system’ starting next week, but only private sector involvement was recommended.
The ban on gatherings in religious facilities was to the extent that they were “swiftly asked” to switch to online worship services.
Meanwhile, ‘container beds’ appeared in Seoul.
Seo said: “We will install temporary beds using containers in inactive spaces in municipal hospitals.”
A total of 150 container beds will be installed at three locations, including the Seoul Medical Center and Seobuk Hospital.
He confessed: “We are expanding hospital beds from various angles, but if the current trend continues, a shortage of beds is inevitable.”
The objective of these measures proposed by the Seoul Metropolitan Government is “to reduce the average daily number of confirmed cases in two weeks to less than 100”.
(Photo = Courtesy of Seoul City, Yonhap News)
