-Interest is focused on whether the distancing measures that limit the business hours of multi-use facilities such as restaurants, PC cafes, and singing practice will be maintained throughout the Lunar New Year holidays. In the case of restaurants in the metropolitan area, it is known that a plan to allow business until 10 p.m. is strongly discussed.
However, experts responded that “we must be cautious about mitigating distance.” This is because concerns over close contact increased as the floating population expanded during the Lunar New Year holidays (11-14 days), and the possibility of spreading the infection tax after the holidays cannot be excluded.
According to the quarantine authorities on the 13th, the government announced at 11 am on the same day as the ΔSecondary Distance 2.5 Step ΔNon-Metropolitan Distance 2nd Step ΔRestricted operation of multi-use facilities in the metropolitan area after 9 p.m. Δ Private gatherings of 5 or more people nationwide It contains whether the prohibition continues.
Among these, the most notable of these is the maintenance of restrictions on operations after 9 pm and the ban on private gatherings with more than 5 people. Self-employed people, such as PC cafes and karaoke business owners, protested against the ban and held a “lit-up demonstration” that lit the store even after 9 pm. have. They are in a position that they should differentiate between different industries and apply distance prevention. In particular, singing practice areas where customers gather at night and PC cafe business owners are strongly demanding’differential quarantine’.
Some media reports reported on the previous day that there is a high possibility that a plan to lower the distance between the metropolitan area from the 2.5 stage to the second stage and the non-metropolitan area from the second stage to the 1.5 stage will be included in the adjustment proposal.
In fact, if it is lowered, restrictions on operations in cinemas, PC cafes, and beauty salons in the metropolitan area will be lifted. Some say that “the plan to delay the operation restrictions of restaurants and the like from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. is being considered powerfully”.
Kim Jong-min, a spokesman for the National Self-Employed Emergency Response Committee (Nationwide Commission), emphasized, “Self-employed people are also making efforts to control infection at midnight. If you go to a PC room or karaoke room, you are better observing the quarantine rules than most meat restaurants.”
The problem is that the infection rate does not subside around the metropolitan area. According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters, the average number of confirmed patients per day for a week excluding overseas inflows was 356 as of 0 o’clock on the 12th.
It is about 300 to 400 people per day, which is the range of the second stage of social distancing. Looking at the number of confirmed patients a day, it is rather increasing slightly.
In the metropolitan area alone, 344 people were diagnosed with infection on the 10th and 383 people on the 11th. On the 12th, the number of confirmed cases decreased again to 299, but this is analyzed because the number of inspectors decreased by about half due to the Lunar New Year holidays.
Experts in infectious diseases make one voice, saying, “We need to be cautious about mitigating distance.”
This is because the’coldness’ activated by the virus has not gone away, and the number of floating populations and family gatherings increases during the Lunar New Year holidays.
Eun-mi Chun, a professor of respiratory medicine at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, said, “Has the scale of infection not increased significantly due to being vigilant?” He pointed out, “We must first check the results to see if the number of confirmed cases has reliably decreased after the Lunar New Year holiday.”
According to the trend of infection during the Lunar New Year holidays, the guidelines for distance steps should be newly established and a decision should be made to ease distance distance.
Prof. Chun also suggested that it is necessary to actively promote measures to preserve the damages of self-employed persons caused by the quarantine.
Prof. Chun said, “If the government compensated for a large portion of the losses, like in foreign countries, the self-employed may not have suffered a lot.” “The business owners should properly compensate for the damage to the point that they think that it is better to close the door.” He advised.
(Seoul = News 1)
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