From tomorrow (15th), the government has decided to ease the distance between the 2nd phase of the metropolitan area and 1.5 of the non-metropolitan area. The opening hours of restaurants and cafes in the metropolitan area are extended by 1 hour until 10 pm, but the ban on meetings of 5 or more people has been decided to remain the same.
Reporter Kim Deok-hyun on the report.
For two weeks from tomorrow to the 28th, restaurants and cafes in the metropolitan area will be open until 10pm.
Indoor sports facilities and singing practice areas are also open until 10pm.
Over 480,000 facilities in the metropolitan area, such as PC cafes, movie theaters, and hypermarkets, are all lifted from the business hours.
As the non-metropolitan area was also eased to 1.5 steps, the operating time restrictions disappeared in almost all industries.
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For weddings and funerals in the metropolitan area, the maximum number of people is increased from 49 to 99.
Six types of entertainment facilities nationwide, such as clubs and hold’em pubs, which had been restricted from operating for nearly three months, were also allowed to open until 10:00 p.m.
However, the government has decided to keep the ban on private gatherings of 5 or more people nationwide, but it has decided to allow immediate family members as an exception even if they do not live together.
The range of immediate family members includes parents and children, grandchildren and granddaughters, and includes son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
However, if there is only siblings without parents, it is not a direct family member, so up to 4 people can gather.
The quarantine authorities stressed that if the third pandemic re-proliferates after the easing measures, the distance distancing step will be raised again.
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