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More than 2,100 nightclubs, hostess bars, and nightclubs in the South Korean capital have been closed after 18 new cases of coronavirus, with all but one related to a 29-year-old man.
He visited three clubs in the Itaewon district of Seoul last Saturday before testing positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday.
The man was not wearing a mask inside the places, according to Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A comprehensive testing regimen in South Korea has been widely praised
Visitor lists showed that the three locations had more than 1,500 combined customers on Saturday.
Authorities have urged people who visited Itaewon’s clubs, including the King Club, Trunk Club and Club Queen, between April 29 and May 6 to undergo screening tests and refrain from leaving to avoid broadcasts. additional.
All nightclubs and hostess bars in the country have been advised to close for a month.
Last weekend, people returned to entertainment venues after the government relaxed some patterns of social estrangement.
But the sites were told to still carry out temperature checks, maintain customer lists, and make sure workers wore masks.
Soccer has resumed behind closed doors in South Korea
The closings come after 18 new infections were confirmed in the country in the 24 hours to midnight on Friday.
A few hours later, Seoul Mayor Park Won confirmed that there were 16 other cases in the city, bringing the total linked to clubbers to 40.
They included 27 in Seoul, 12 in the neighboring cities of Incheon and Gyeonggi provinces, and one in the port city of Busan in the south of the country.
Schools were supposed to start reopening next week, but may not now do so amid fears of a resurgence as South Korea has had more than 10 cases a day for the first time in five days.
Authorities say it is too early to confirm whether school openings will be postponed, but added that they will monitor the spread of the virus and review information on new cases.
South Korea, which has been widely praised for its comprehensive testing regimen during the pandemic, has reported more than 10,800 overall cases and 256 deaths from the virus.
Their Professional football started its new season behind closed doors on Friday, after baseball’s opening games on Tuesday.
