“Covid-19 Quarantine Obligation for Confirmed Patients to be Lifted from Next Month”

From next month, the quarantine obligation for confirmed COVID-19 patients will be lifted.

The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters will downgrade the COVID-19 crisis alert level from the current ‘severe’ to ‘warning’ from the 1st of next month.

The biggest change resulting from this is the lifting of the quarantine obligation for confirmed patients, which will change the mandatory ‘7-day quarantine’ to ‘5-day quarantine recommendation’.

Quarantine obligations do not apply not only to individuals, but also to medical institutions or facilities prone to infection, but quarantine by voluntary consent can be maintained at the facility.

The COVID-19 PCR test recommendation for foreign arrivals will also disappear.

A screening clinic for PCR testing will be operated, but the operation of a temporary screening testing center will be discontinued.

Most of the quarantine measures are lifted, but government policies such as free vaccination and free treatment, support for inpatient treatment costs, and support for living expenses and paid vacations remain in place.

Despite the de facto declaration of endemic after 40 months, some are still concerned that an average of 10,000 confirmed cases per day may arise, and a situation in which they may be forced to go to work even if they are sick due to the lifting of quarantine obligations is emerging.