China News Service, August 22. According to Korean media reports, on August 22, South Korea’s Minister of Health and Welfare Park Linghou stated that currently, South Korea’s new crown epidemic is at a major juncture of spreading across the country, and the situation is very severe. From the 23rd, South Korea will The secondary response range for maintaining social distancing was extended to the whole country.
Data map: On June 23, a citizen of Seoul, South Korea, passed by Seoul Plaza. Photo by China News Agency reporter Zeng Nai
According to reports, Park Ling Hoo said that for some areas where the number of new crown cases is small and the number of collective infections is small, the second level of epidemic prevention measures will be implemented in a recommended rather than mandatory manner, such as Gangwon Province and North Gyeongsang Province.
South Korea’s secondary response measures for epidemic prevention include the total suspension of 12 categories of high-risk epidemic prevention places such as entertainment venues and large colleges and indoor public places; a total ban on gatherings, gatherings and activities with a scale of 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors.
According to South Korea’s report on the 22nd, as of 0:00 local time, South Korea had newly confirmed 332 new cases of new crown, with a total of 17002 confirmed cases and a total of 309 deaths.
Recently, the new crown epidemic has shown signs of spreading in the South Korean capital. Beginning on August 16, the South Korean government first raised the anti-epidemic response level for Seoul City and Gyeonggi Province; starting on the 19th, South Korea will increase the scope of anti-epidemic restrictions to Incheon.