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At the entrance to a nightclub in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, May 8, 2020, a notice is posted of the guidelines that entertainment facilities must follow. from schools after linking more than a dozen new coronavirus infections to club goers in the capital. The sign says: “Guidelines that entertainment facilities must follow.” (Ryu Hyung-seok / Yonhap via AP)
SEOUL, South Korea – Seoul has closed more than 2,100 nightclubs, hostess bars, and nightclubs after dozens of infections linked with club goers who came out last weekend as the country relaxed patterns of social distancing.
The measures imposed by Mayor Park Won-soon on Saturday came after the national government urged entertainment venues across the country to shut down or enforce anti-virus measures, including distancing, temperature control, the maintaining customer lists and requiring employees to wear masks.
Park said the facility’s entry bans will remain in place until the city concludes that infection risks have significantly decreased.
South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously said 18 new cases were reported in the 24-hour midnight period on Friday, all but one related to a 29-year-old man who visited three clubs in the Itaewon district. from Seoul last Saturday before testing positive. on Tuesday.
But Park said 16 more cases were confirmed in Seoul alone in the following hours since then. He said this brought the total number of club-linked infections to 40 to 27 in Seoul, 12 in neighboring cities in the Incheon and Gyeonggi provinces, and one in the southern port city of Busan.
The KCDC, which complies with local government data, could not immediately confirm Park’s numbers.
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