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While the number of confirmed coronavirus (Corona 19) infections in Seoul is breaking records every day, the city of Seoul has issued an “emergency prescription” saying it is 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 strengthened quarantine measures than current stage 2 .
He stressed that “a preventive emergency measure to stop movement and activities except the minimal economic and social activities necessary to live.”
The urgent measures announced by the city are the closure of shops, cinemas, PC cafes, game rooms, reading rooms, study cafes, amusement parks, beauty and beauty businesses, marts and department stores and public facilities after 9:00 p.m. 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 industry. The city said: “Small convenience stores less than 300m2 and restaurant packaging and delivery are allowed so that essential daily necessities can be purchased.”
However, when the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s countermeasures were announced, skepticism about the effects arose.
In the YouTube channel’s real-time comment window 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? “,” Health, PC room (9 pm) Previously, there were fewer negative reactions such as “You can go”.
In fact, it is expected that there will be no significant change in rush hour when most people gather. The city said the city council, district offices and subsidiaries will implement the ‘half-house work’ and ‘differential transportation 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, the “container bed” 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”.
Seoul’s daily new confirmed cases hit a record 295 on Day 3. The previous record was 262 on Day 2, the day before, and a new record was written in one day.
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