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This second-stage Plus Alpha measure to the quarantine authorities in the metropolitan area takes into account the damage that the 2.5-stage upgrade will affect the economy, especially the self-employed and small business owners.
However, it is necessary to raise the distance according to the standard or preemptively.
There are also criticisms about how the distance stage was readjusted for a while.
Reporter Choi Ho-won analyzes.
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average number of confirmed cases in Korea per day for the past week is 416, meeting the 2.5 step standard.
However, the ratio of confirmed cases to the number of tests has declined again since last Friday and Saturday.
The quarantine authorities are analyzing that the effect of strengthening distance is gradually appearing.
Even at the time of the second outbreak in August, the quarantine authorities reinforced the distance to the previous standard, and the effect only appeared on the 29th of the same month, ten days later.
In the case of the second phase of the metropolitan area, which started on the 24th of this month, it is expected that the effect can be estimated around the 4th of the following month.
[Jeong Eun-kyung/Director of Disease Control: Because it is a very important time until the end of the year or the beginning of next year to minimize contact between these people...
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Instead of raising the distance, the quarantine authorities have selected saunas, exercise classes, and singing training centers, which have a clear spread of infection recently, and discontinued additional operations.
The decision of the Central Clinical Committee for New Infectious Diseases was also taken into account in deciding which business was to be discontinued.
The clinical committee recently revealed that more virus is excreted when you breathe through your mouth than through your nose.
If you breathe through your mouth while exercising vigorously, and talk or sing a lot in meetings or classrooms, your chances of infection increase.