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next month, self-quarantine for two weeks will be exempted for some returning home after receiving the vaccine. Starting today (14th), classes at middle schools in the metropolitan area will also be expanded.
Reporter Kim Min-jung reports.
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exemption from self-quarantine for those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 from abroad and entered the country will come into effect from the 1st of next month.
Those who received emergency WHO vaccines such as Pfizer, Janssen, Moderna, and AstraZeneca before entering the country and two weeks have passed are eligible.
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just an important business and academia, and when public interest objectives and principal Eligibility is limited to visits to the spouse's immediate family.
It also excludes those arriving from 13 countries where the mutant virus is prevalent, including South Africa, Brazil, Bangladesh and Chile.
However, India and the United Kingdom, which suffered a lot from the mutated virus, were excluded from the list.
The Ministry of Education has also begun to ease the distance. Middle schools in the metropolitan area have decided to reduce the density of schools from less than one-third of the current total student population to two-thirds.
It will be applied from today, and we plan to decide whether or not to go back to school in the second semester based on progress.
Starting today, sports venues such as baseball and soccer can receive up to 30% of the capacity in the metropolitan area and up to half in the non-metropolitan area.
Measures to ease the distance due to the expansion of vaccination are coming out one after another, but the number of confirmed cases is not decreasing.
Last week, the average daily number of new cases was 524.
A public official in Incheon infected with the Indian mutant virus revealed a false movement route, resulting in 18 additional confirmed cases.