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The government also plans to make medical and pharmacy visits to Southeast Asia and Japan available. He said he will continue to review the issue of expanding restrictions on entry outside of China.

Kim Hyung-rae reports on government measures announced yesterday.

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Four out of 27 Koreans who have been diagnosed with a new coronavirus infection have entered the country from countries other than China.

Health authorities have said that they will expand their overseas travel history to eight countries, including Thailand, Singapore and Japan, to prevent the introduction of new coronaviruses from outside of China.

[President Jeong Se-kyun / Prime Minister: We will strengthen quarantine for key nationals who are infected with community infections outside China, and provide travel history to medical institutions to find suspect patients early.]

The government also recommended refraining from visiting countries and regions of the country that are infected with the new coronavirus.

In addition, after the embargo ban on Hubei Province, which began on February 4th, the number of visitors from China has decreased by about 60%. Has said I will continue to review.

In addition, to strengthen the response to new corona, the government has decided to increase the number of nationally designated negative pressure therapy beds from 198 to more than 900, and to expand the number of epidemiological survey personnel.