The main content is the additional guidelines for distancing the government announced on the 17th. Part of the measures were reinforced in steps 2.5 and 2 for non-metropolitan areas. In fact, although it is an entertainment facility, a typical restaurant or entertainment facility is registered as a hold’em pub and a vending machine sales business, which has avoided the ban on gatherings, and an unmanned cafe that has continued to eat in the store. In the case of accommodation facilities and party rooms in the metropolitan area, parties or events were not allowed to be held from the 1st when step 2.5 was applied, but this time, a recommendation not to hold private parties or events has been added.
All programs such as cultural and educational lectures held by local governments in the metropolitan area should also be stopped. Various in-person collective education and training courses conducted by local governments or public institutions are canceled or converted to non-face-to-face. The same is true for private companies or organizations in the metropolitan area. It is planned to make more active use of the telecommuting and jet lag system for private companies. However, measures for such education and programs are recommendations, not administrative orders (compulsory). The government asked the religious community to switch religious activities to non-face-to-face as much as possible and to ban meetings and meals thoroughly.
Although the proliferation trend has not stopped at all, the government has drew a line to raise the distance to the third stage and instead strengthened some measures. It is ‘2.5 step + α’or ‘2.75 step’. Young-rae Son, head of the Strategic Planning Division of the Central Accident Response Headquarters, said, “The 3rd stage judgment criteria are whether the quarantine control network has been lost or whether the capacity of the medical system has been exceeded. . As the third step is a measure that damages many people, it means’I will try to endure as much as I can withstand’ as long as the quarantine and medical capabilities allow. The recent decrease in the movement of citizens in the metropolitan area also seems to have had an effect. According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters (middle script), the amount of mobile phone movement in the metropolitan area was the lowest ever recorded at 24,488,000 cases last weekend (12-13). It is lower than the weekend of the end of February (24511,000 cases) when the first outbreak was at its peak. Compared to the previous weekend (5-6), it decreased by 12%, compared to the weekend just before the increase in distance (November 14-15), decreased by 31.8%. Son said, “I am looking forward to seeing the effect of (decrease in movement) between this weekend and next week. If the decrease in movement volume and the increase in diagnostic tests work well together, the number of patients will increase for the time being, but there is a possibility that it will decrease after that.” However, it is pointed out that it does not adhere to the pre-determined distancing principle and adds to the confusion through the’split’ rule. There are also criticisms that most of them are only recommended measures, raising questions about their effectiveness. Kim Woo-joo, a professor of infectious medicine at Korea Daeguro Hospital, said, “The number of confirmed elderly people who can become critically ill right now is increasing, but I don’t know how much this measure will help to block Hold’em pubs and unmanned cafes. It is not the time to do’tinkering’-style quarantine.” Gyeonggi-do is considering strengthening its own meeting limit to less than 5 people. Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun said at the main script meeting that day, “As the number of small-scale gatherings centered on young people increases, there are no vacant rooms in Gangwon-do or Jeju-do,” he said.
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