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Here is the Corona news.

Additional confirmed cases recorded 130,000 for the second day.

However, today (1st), the number of confirmed cases in one day has already exceeded 170,000, the highest number in history as of 6 pm a little while ago, and the number of severe cases is also continuing to increase.



Some of the quarantine guidelines have been changed from today to reduce the burden of work at public health centers that have reached their limit.



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Now, even if a family member living with you is diagnosed with COVID-19, you do not need to self-quarantine regardless of whether or not you have been vaccinated.



PCR testing has also changed from mandatory to recommended, with no 'punishment for violations'.



PCR tests at screening clinics for family members living with confirmed cases will continue to be conducted free of charge.



Even if you are already in quarantine, you can go out of the house as the quarantine is lifted from today.



However, COVID-19 confirmed cases, overseas entrants, and close contacts in facilities susceptible to infection are still required to self-quarantine for a week.



[Jeong Eun-kyung/Director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Yesterday): We ask for your understanding that this is a measure to minimize health damage such as death with a response system centered on high-risk groups, and to minimize the burden of being quarantined for many essential people in society.]



New semester starting tomorrow Schools that start the quarantine switch to their own quarantine system.



Until the 13th, students and staff will be suspended from school for 7 days for those who are not vaccinated when a person living with them is confirmed, but from the 14th, students can go to school regardless of whether they are vaccinated or not.



If you cannot attend school due to confirmation, quarantine, or suspected symptoms, you can show the text message from the quarantine authorities or the test confirmation to the homeroom teacher and it will be treated as an absence.



The government provided rapid antigen test kits to kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school students and faculty, and recommended that students undergo a preemptive test twice a week and faculty and staff once a week.



However, there are concerns about lifting the quarantine measures as it is estimated that 30-40% of the family members living with the confirmed case are infected with the coronavirus.



(Video editing: Eunjin Choi)