Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun convenes an emergency Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters meeting at 2 pm today (18th) to discuss measures to strengthen the rapidly spreading COVID-19 quarantine level.

This morning, a critical script meeting was already held under the presided over by Park Neung-hoo, the first deputy chief of the company, but it was held again in the afternoon under the head of Prime Minister Chung, as the spread of the infection was serious.

This is due to the fact that there are 246 new confirmed cases today, and the number of confirmed cases has reached close to 1,000 in the last five days, and Corona 19 is showing signs of spreading nationwide outside the propagation trend centered on the metropolitan area.

The meeting is expected to discuss ways to expand the area of ​​social distancing in the second step beyond Seoul and Gyeonggi, and to further strengthen quarantine measures within the second step.

The plan to raise the level of quarantine in Incheon, which was excluded from the upgrade measures on the 15th, will be discussed first. As the nationwide infection trend appears, measures to raise the level of distancing nationwide can also be considered at the meeting.

Deputy General Manager Park also said at the morning script meeting, "I am concerned that a confirmed case will appear in a total of 12 attempts and spread to a nationwide infection."

However, in the current situation, the government is drawing a line for the 3rd stage of social distancing.

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