In order to prevent the spread of Corona19, the government decided to extend the period of 'social distance' practice until the 5th of next month. However, considering the public's fatigue and economic impact on social distance, we decided to ease the restrictions on business for religious, entertainment, and indoor sports facilities.

At the regular briefing held at the Seoul Metropolitan Government Building on the 19th, Park Neung-hu, the first director of the Central Disaster Safety Response Headquarters, decided to continue the social distance in a somewhat relaxed form from the 20th to May 5th. Revealed.

"In the current situation where social confusion due to the re-proliferation of Corona 19 is a concern, it was the opinion of many people that it was premature to implement 'life prevention' and 'keeping distance in life'," said Park. The committee and the opinions of the people identified through 17 local government polls were similar. "

The government has set the period from the 22nd of last month to the 19th of this month as a practice period for high-intensity social distance in order to cut the corona19 spread to a meaningful level.

It was a policy to shift to 'life prevention', where daily and economic life and prevention are harmonized when the increase in the number of confirmed patients is calm.

However, it was decided that the risk of group infection remains in Korea, such as sporadically occurring cases of unknown pathogens and continued epidemic of foreign countries.

In particular, preparing for the possibility of spread of infectious diseases due to increased contact between people during the so-called 'Golden Holiday', where the days from the Buddha's coming on the 30th of this month to the workers' day on May 1 and the children's day on May 5 continue. is.

However, as a result of conducting a high-intensity social distance for a month, the fatigue of the people accumulated and economic activity contracted, so the intensity was decided to be eased.

It is recommended to lift operating restrictions on religious facilities such as churches, entertainment facilities, indoor sports facilities, and academies, and to operate business sites while complying with the quarantine regulations.

Recruitment tests, etc. are also limited.

National parks, natural recreation forests, and arboretums and other outdoor dispersion facilities with low risk of infection will be prepared for each facility, and operation will be resumed.

Sports that can be in close contact, such as professional baseball, allow them to operate without the crowd.

"In the future, the level of social distance positioning will fluctuate depending on the size of the transmission of infection," said Park. "The government will evaluate the risk every two weeks and examine how to adjust the level of social distance positioning if necessary." .

On the other hand, the government evaluated that it had achieved quarantine performance by reducing the number of new diagnoses and the number of outbreaks by placing a high-intensity social distance promoted in the past month.

"The number of new confirmed cases, which occurred around 100 people every day for 10 days before starting to strengthen the social distance, has decreased to less than 50 since April 9, and on the 19th, it is the first digit in about two months. "It was recorded."

He added, "The number of cases occurred in 11 days in the 10 days before the start of the group, but it decreased to 3 cases in the last 10 days, and the percentage of patients with unknown infection paths also decreased. "These results can be evaluated as an increased level of control over the quarantine network," he said.

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