Early update to 300 people in the second stage of the metropolitan area on the fifth day



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One after another group of Honam-do infection at step 1.5

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Health and Welfare Minister Park Neung-hoo, the First Deputy Head of the Security and Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters, is giving a briefing on the results of the new critical script meeting for coronavirus infection (Corona 19) in the meeting room of the Seoul Government Complex on the afternoon of the 22nd / yunhap news

The government will radically update the stage of social distancing in the metropolitan area to the second stage for two weeks from 00:00 hours on the 24th to midnight on the 7th of next month. Entertainment facilities are off-limits for business, restaurants can only be packed up and delivered after 9pm, and cafes can only carry all day. During the same period, the government increased the distance between the Honam region to 1.5 levels. This is due to the fact that the nationwide spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) has recently exceeded 300 for five consecutive days.

The Security and Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters held a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Chung Sye-gyun on the 22nd and decided on this policy.

Park Neung-hoo, the first deputy chief of the Headquarters for Disasters and Security Countermeasures, said in a briefing that day, “a very serious and severe situation in which the third Corona 19 epidemic is in full swing.” Taking into account the need to suppress the spread of the infection as soon as possible ”, explained the purpose of the update.

The announcement of the second stage of update is only three days after the application of the update to stage 1.5 on the 19th. It was reinforced with two stages after a month of lowering the stage of national distance including the metropolitan area to stage 1 on the 12th of last month.

The government, which showed a cautious attitude when increasing the distance due to concerns about self-employment and other damages to the low-income economy, decided to move up to the second stage of the metropolitan area because it considered that the current level of distance was insufficient to prevent the third pandemic. In fact, when looking at the daily average of confirmed cases by region during the last week (16-22 days), the number of confirmed patients in the metropolitan area reached 188.71, which is the standard of the second stage update. , and registered 300 people for 5 consecutive days from the 18th to the present day (330). did.

From the 24th, when the distance setting is updated to the second stage, the operation of five types of entertainment facilities, such as clubs and lounge halls in the metropolitan area, and five entertainment facilities such as Danran Izakaya, will be prohibited. Gamseong Izakaya, Collate and Hunting Potcha. Indoor sports facilities, such as fitness, are prohibited after 9:00 p.m. M. And face-to-face religious activities like worship are only allowed in 20% of the garden. Schools recommend that only one-third of the total number of students attend classes, but up to two-thirds of them can attend school according to the agreement of the provincial office of education. / Reporter Joowon Lee [email protected]

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