<Anchor> With

this social distance ending today (5th), the government is also considering whether to adjust the stage of infectious disease crisis warning. Currently, it is the highest 'severe' stage, but the government said that even if the stage is lowered, individual policies such as the mask subtitle will remain for the time being.

This was covered by reporter Park Chan-geun.

<Reporter> The

infectious disease crisis warning is operated in four stages: attention, attention, caution, and severity.

It rose to 'Caution' on January 20, when the first patient of Corona 19 came out in Korea, and was upgraded to 'Severe' on February 23, when the cumulative number of patients exceeded 500 due to the group infection of Sincheonji Church in Daegu.

The need to adjust for crisis alerts has recently been raised as community infections have diminished significantly and shifted to distance in life.

The government says it is a stage to gather expert opinion.

[Kim Kang-lip / Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare: After such opinions are collected, the questionnaire and evaluation of the committee must be conducted to review whether or not adjustments are needed afterwards. .]

However, it is a variable that Corona 19 may have asymptomatic infections or mild cases, so that a quiet transmission may continue.

[Kwon Joon-wook / Deputy General Manager, Central Defense Countermeasures Division: I think that another epidemic can occur at any time if a lot of people are exposed in a particularly closed and dense environment.]

It should also be taken into account that the World Health Organization still considers it an international emergency and classifies Korea as a 'population outbreak' country.

The government said that even if the crisis level is adjusted, individual policies are not automatically abolished or reduced in connection with the adjustment.

It is an explanation that will evaluate and decide the situation and necessity of each policy, such as the mask subtitle.

(Video coverage: Mincheol Kim, Video editing: Lee So-young, CG: Park Sang-hyun)