(Fighting against new crown pneumonia) South Korea's epidemic risk reached the highest level for two consecutive weeks, and new epidemic prevention regulations will be implemented for 4 weeks today
China News Service, Seoul, December 6 (Reporter Liu Xu) The South Korean Central Anti-epidemic Countermeasures Headquarters reported on the 6th local time that as of 0:00 that day, South Korea had newly confirmed 4,325 new cases of new coronary pneumonia compared with 0:00 the previous day, and a total of 477,358 confirmed cases.
The number of new cases in a single day hit the highest number of new cases on Sunday.
Following the weekly review from November 21 to 27, the Central Anti-epidemic Countermeasures Headquarters again assessed last week (November 28 to December 4) the nationwide risk of COVID-19 as the highest level "very high" on the same day. Emphasize that various indicators are showing a deteriorating trend.
In response to Omi Keron mutant strain infections, South Korea added 12 confirmed cases of Omi Keron strain that day, and a total of 24 cases were confirmed.
It is worth noting that in a church in Incheon where Omi Kejon confirmed cases occurred one after another, a large number of believers attended the service without being vaccinated. Korean media analyzed that a large-scale mass infection occurred in South Korea with the church as the center. The possibility of increasing.
South Korean Prime Minister Kim Fuqian said on the same day that the government will concentrate all epidemic prevention efforts before the end of the year to deal with the Omi Keron mutant strain and resolutely prevent its further spread in the community.
South Korea’s epidemic prevention department implemented the “phased restoration of daily life” measures starting on the 1st of last month, reducing the limit of private gatherings in the metropolitan and non-capital regions to 10 and 12 people, respectively.
However, considering that the epidemic situation is extremely severe, the epidemic prevention department has tightened the epidemic prevention measures again, and implemented special epidemic prevention measures for a period of four weeks starting on December 6, local time.
During this period, private gatherings in the metropolitan area and other areas will be limited to 6 and 8 people respectively, and most public gathering service operations such as restaurants and cafes will implement an epidemic prevention pass system.
In order to avoid confusion, the South Korean government has set a one-week transition period and will fully implement penalties for violations from December 13.
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