All entrants entering Korea from 00:00 on April 1 are required to enter self-isolation for two weeks regardless of origin and nationality.

This is a high-intensity measure put by the government to slow down the spread of corona19, with about 40% of new coronavirus infections in Korea (corona19) emerging from abroad.

On the 29th, the Central Disaster Safety Response Headquarters (Major Capital) announced, "In recent years, the number of cases of confirmed cases in foreign countries has increased and the number of foreign patients has increased.

Accordingly, the principle of self-isolation for 2 weeks (14 days) is applied to all foreign nationals who enter from overseas from 00:00 on April 1.

Currently, only immigrants from Europe and the United States are obliged to self-separate, but this has been expanded to include those from all countries.

In the meantime, even short-term residents who have only actively monitored without self-isolation have to self-isolate except for visits for national and public purposes.

Visits for public or public purposes are applicable to visas A1 (diplomacy), A2 (public affairs), and A3 (agreement).

The manuscript said, "Short-term residents are expected to enter the country only when it is absolutely necessary as long as the period of self-isolation applies."

Enhanced active monitoring is a method of entering the symptoms of corona19 in the mobile self-diagnosis app and checking it on a daily basis.

If there is no place for self-isolation, or if it is not appropriate, the quarantine facilities prepared by the state or local government can be used.

In this case, we plan to collect the usage fee (expected to be around 100,000 won per day) for both domestic and foreign residents.

The scope of diagnostic tests for overseas immigrants is also expanded.

Bequest boxes found in the quarantine process of airports and foreign entrants from Europe conduct diagnostic tests in the quarantine process as they are now, check the voice, and enter the quarantine phase.

In addition, self-containers were asked to have their health center inspected if symptoms appeared during the containment period.

In addition, we plan to guide people who have entered Korea within the last 14 days to self-isolate for 14 days from the date of entry, and to undergo a diagnostic test at the public health center if symptoms occur.

The manuscript said, "These measures will be applied from the immigrants after 00:00 on April 1st." The release period will be decided by evaluating the global trend and the risks of each country and region in the future. "

This measure is based on the rapid increase in the number of people infected with Corona19 around the world, and the number of cases of infection from overseas to Korea.

According to the data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States at 3:30 pm on the day, there were 66,164 confirmed corona19 and 38,000 52 deaths worldwide.

In Korea, 412 (4.3%) of the 9,853 cumulative corona19 patients were found to have flowed from overseas at 0 o'clock on the day.

The proportion of foreign inflows is also increasing.

As of this day, 41 cases (39.0%) were related to overseas inflow among 105 new confirmers.

Recently, there are 7,000 immigrants per day coming through Incheon International Airport.

Of these, there are around 2,000 foreigners, and the rest are Koreans.

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