SEOUL, KOMPAS.com – Capital city South Korea, Seoul, and surrounding areas will close bars and nightclubs, restrict worshipers, and limit restaurant services, as “Ginseng Country” hits the third wave. corona virus.
The rules announced on Sunday (11/22/2020) are similar to PSBB (Large-Scale Social Restrictions) applied in a number of cities / regions of Indonesia.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KCDC) reported 330 cases Covid-19 The new daily was at midnight Saturday, down from 386 on Friday, but is the fifth straight day of adding more than 300 cases per day.
“The third wave of the Covid-19 outbreak is increasing,” said the Minister of Health Carousel Park Neung-hoo quoted Kompas.com from Reuters.
“The situation is very serious and urgent,” he added.
This national coronavirus outbreak was triggered by a cluster of infections in the Seoul metropolitan area, which is home to half of the 52 million people in South Korea.
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Starting Tuesday (24/11/2020) large coffee shops in Seoul will be asked to serve only takeaway and order delivery, while restaurants may not serve on-site meals after 21:00.
Other PSBB will be implemented in places such as gyms, as well as congregations of worship and sporting events.
Earlier South Korean PM Chung Sye-kyun said in a government meeting that social distancing rules might be needed to prevent the outbreak from spreading.
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“We are at a tipping point of facing a large number of infections across the country,” Chung said as reported by Yonhap.
On Saturday (11/21/2020) a KCDC official warned that South Korea could experience a more severe outbreak than the previous two waves, if it failed to contain its current spread.
Tightened rules were also partially drawn up to allow students to continue with the annual college entrance examination, which is scheduled to take place on December 3.
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Without a lockdown, South Korea will aggressively carry out tracking, testing and quarantine to stem the spread of Covid-19.
But Moon Jae-in’s country continues to be afflicted with a small number of infections that keep coming, bringing the total cases now over 30,000 and the death toll over 500.
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