Xinhua news agency reported that South Korea has decided today to extend a two-week extension of social spacing measures amid a new wave of COVID-19 outbreaks.
South Korea’s Central Disaster Response and Security Headquarters said. The Seoul metropolitan area will be governed by a social spacing guideline at level 2.5, or at the highest secondary level, for the next two weeks up to January 17.
South Korean authorities raised the country’s five levels of social spacing measures from level 1, or the lowest level, to 1.5 on Nov. 19 in the capital region. Which covers Seoul, neighboring Gyeonggi Province. And the port city of Incheon in the west Before adjusting to Level 2 for 2 weeks between 24 Nov-7 Dec and 2.5 for 4 weeks until Jan 3 in the Seoul metropolitan area.
South Korea has detected an additional 824 cases in the past 24 hours. This resulted in the cumulative number of patients at 62,593 while the daily number of patients was lower than 900 in the last 5 days due to the lower number of disease examinations during the New Year holidays.
Number of COVID-19 cases The daily average number of cases in South Korea has exceeded 100 since Nov. 8, with the nationwide median number of cases being 956 in the past week. While the median daily number of cases in the Seoul metropolitan area was 652.1.
Other areas In addition to the region, the capital will also be placed under social spacing measures at Level 2.0 or the highest level 3 for the next two weeks.
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