The government will extend the period of measures to strengthen quarantine control in the metropolitan area, which was until the 14th.

This is due to the fact that the spread of corona19 outbreaks in the metropolitan area has not diminished.

Prime Minister Chung Se-gyun said at a meeting of the Central Disaster Safety Response Headquarters (Crime Capital) on the 12th, "the strengthened quarantine measures for the metropolitan area that are scheduled to end the day after tomorrow are inevitable."

"The government will continue to work to slow the spread of infection by extending the existing measures in the Seoul metropolitan area and strengthening the prevention of blind spots until the situation stabilizes."

In addition, he said, "We will expand the diagnostic tests for high-risk facilities regardless of symptoms or not, and prepare for the second pandemic in a hurry."

"In the past two weeks, the current situation has not improved as before despite the enforcement of measures to strengthen quarantine in the Seoul metropolitan area." It's becoming."

He added that various indicators are also at risk level, such as the increase in the proportion of those who are not sure about the path of infection and the proportion of those who are managed within the quarantine network.

Minister of Health and Welfare Park Neung-Hoo, the first major director of the company's major texts, will briefly present the details of measures to strengthen the measures against the metropolitan area.

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