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So the government decided to continue to strengthen the quarantine measures for the time being until another additional confirmed day falls in the metropolitan area again. In addition, it was decided to introduce an electronic entry list to leave private names and contact information on smartphones in academies and PC rooms where many students go.

Reporter Kim Hyung-rae continues.

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first grader in middle school who started school in Siheung, Gyeonggi Province on the 8th was judged corona19.

The school is closed, and over 290 people, including classmates and staff, are undergoing diagnostic tests.

As the mass infection in the metropolitan area followed and the risk of spreading within schools increased, the government extended indefinite measures to strengthen the quarantine measures scheduled for this weekend.

This applies until the number of new confirmed persons in the metropolitan area, which has maintained double digits since the 23rd of last month, drops to one digit again.

[Jung Se-Gyun/Prime Minister: We will continue to try to extend the existing measures in the metropolitan area and slow the spread of infection until the situation stabilizes.]

First, in the metropolitan academies and PC rooms, where many students visit, use QR codes like high-risk facilities. It was decided to introduce the electronic register that was used.

Guidelines for attending school within one-third of the number of elementary and middle schools in the metropolitan area will be maintained by the end of this month, and the suspension of multi-use public facilities will continue.

The government also decided to consider ways to include religious facilities, construction site restaurants, manpower offices, and coffee shops in the types of high-risk facilities that are central to entertainment facilities.

We also opened up the possibility of going back to social distance if things don't get better.

[Night neunghu / Secretary of Health and Human Services: (new confirmed characters number) If you do not return to the single digit will be a next step put social distance a little further reinforce or review the implementation of the next phase -

the government used a multi-use facility in the weekend and It was emphasized to refrain from attending somoimyeon and strictly observe personal prevention measures such as wearing a mask.

(Video coverage: Seonghwa Jung, Donghyuk Yoo, video editing: Park Jung-sam)  

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