<Anchor> Although the



average number of confirmed patients per day has already exceeded the standard of the 3rd stage of social distancing, the government is still cautious.

He said that he would do all the quarantine measures he could do, and that if he moves it to step 3, he will provide enough guidance in advance.



Reporter Hyung-rae Kim will deliver this news.



<Reporter> For a



week, the number of confirmed cases in Korea increased to 882.6 on average per day.



However, the quarantine authorities said they would not decide to raise the distance to only the number of confirmed cases.



Additional conditions for the three-stage upgrade were the loss of control of the quarantine network, which could not track the confirmed cases, and the collapse of the medical system, which could not treat crowded patients.



Before we go to step 3, we will do all the extra quarantine measures we can take.



To this end, first of all, a group ban was imposed on'Hold'em Pub', a card game restaurant that has recently been infected with a group for 9 days from the 19th.



Even in unmanned cafes, which are considered as blind spots for quarantine, eating or drinking in the store is prohibited as in general cafes.



Ski resorts in the non-metropolitan area, where the second step of distance was applied, was raised to step 2.5 and stopped operating after 9 p.m.



[Lee Sang-won/Director of Epidemiological Investigation and Analysis, Central Defense Countermeasures Headquarters: I would like to tell you that we are thinking about it enough, because blocking social contact through a forced method is a problem that requires both effects and results.]



Each local government is also strengthening its own quarantine rules.



Gyeonggi-do is reviewing an administrative order banning meetings of five or more people, and Jeju Island plans to mandate diagnostic tests for all people entering Jeju.



Meanwhile, the health authorities stressed that the third step of our distance is different from European city blockades, and that if we upgrade to the third step, we will provide enough information in advance without any sudden announcement.



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Kim, VJ: Soyoung Shin) 

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