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Today (19th), the number of new COVID-19 cases is expected to be around 500. The government decided to apply a new social distancing reform plan from next month, seeing that the spread of the infection has softened somewhat, but the details will be announced tomorrow. In some areas, some of the restrictions on distancing are being lifted before this.



Reporter Ahn Sang-woo reports.



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city ​​of Busan will completely lift the restrictions on business hours for multi-use facilities from next week.



There are restaurants and cafes, as well as entertainment facilities, hold'em pubs, and a singing practice area.



However, the ban on gatherings of more than five people remains, and employees in entertainment facilities must undergo PCR testing every two weeks.



Daegu, which had more than 300 confirmed cases of entertainment facilities until the beginning of this month, will also lift restrictions on business hours for restaurants, cafes and entertainment facilities from next week.



In both Busan and Daegu, the average number of confirmed cases per day has recently decreased significantly to around 15.



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Jeonbuk 11 cities and Islands next week private meetings restricted personnel 4 people expanded to 8 people.



Including Gyeongbuk, Jeollanam-do, and Gangwon-do, where the new distancing reform plan is being applied as a pilot, in fact, most of the non-metropolitan regions have relaxed the distance-distancing standards.



Vaccination is also accelerating as a factor.



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quarantine authorities on vacation infection risk In preparation for this, we decided to disperse the summer vacation period for kindergartens, academies and daycare centers.