The government has decided to extend the current social distancing and ban on private gatherings with more than 5 people for two weeks until the end of the Lunar New Year holidays.
Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun said at the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters meeting held at the Seoul Government Complex on the 31st, “The third epidemic, which had been slowing for a while, threatened again in our daily lives, such as hospitals, workplaces, and game centers, following collective infection from the IM Mission. I am doing it,” he said.
Currently, there is a ban on private gatherings of 5 or more people with a distance of 2.5 steps in the metropolitan area and 2 steps in the non-metropolitan area.
Prime Minister Chung added, “We will continue to implement special quarantine measures for the New Year without shaking, and normalize only some quarantine measures specially strengthened in the winter.”
Prime Minister Chung emphasized, “Only if the third spread is stabilized until the Lunar New Year holiday, vaccination and school opening in March will be achieved without any problems, and the recovery of precious daily lives will be accelerated.”
Regarding the difficulties of small business owners and self-employed, Prime Minister Chung said, “We are sorry and sorry. I sincerely appeal to you that you will give me a little more effort to overcome the last hurdle as soon as possible.”
Prime Minister Chung said, “Yesterday, through the COVAX facility, there was an official notification regarding the vaccine to be supplied to Korea.” He said, “As early as mid-February, 117,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine, about 60,000 people will enter Korea.” Delivered.
Prime Minister Chung said, “AstraZeneca vaccine through COVAX facility was also approved for emergency use by the WHO World Health Organization, and at least 1.3 million people and maximum 2.19 million people were introduced in the first half of the year, of which at least 300,000 people were supplied during February to March. It is done.”
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