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As I mentioned earlier, as the number of patients in critical condition is rapidly increasing, the number of patients waiting due to a shortage of hospital beds is increasing. In addition, the current situation, where there is no immediate solution, may shake our medical response system, which the government emphasized as the government moves to a step-by-step recovery of daily life. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it should be viewed as a serious situation. In this situation, the government postponed the announcement of quarantine measures scheduled for today (26th). We discussed ways to strengthen quarantine, but no consensus was reached.
Reporter Park Soo-jin.
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The topic of the Daily Recovery Support Committee held yesterday morning was the expansion of quarantine passes.
It is that the target of the quarantine pass should be expanded as a minimum measure that can break the recent trend of worsening epidemics.
In particular, there were many opinions that the quarantine pass should be applied to children under the age of 18 and adolescents who are excluded.
There were also some opinions that the quarantine pass should be applied to restaurants and cafes so that only those who have completed the vaccination can use it, but it is known that there was a lot of opposition from the self-employed and small business groups participating in the committee.
[Kim Ki-hong / Co-CEO of the Self-Employed Emergency Response Committee: We need to prepare a loss compensation plan for the reduced sales when the quarantine pass is applied. (Compensation plan) should be announced together like a package, so it is not right to talk about quarantine first and then compensation.]
However, at the meeting, it was reported that the Ministry of Strategy and Finance was negative about the additional loss compensation opinion.
It was found that there was no discussion about triggering an emergency plan in the metropolitan area, limiting business hours for multi-use facilities, or reducing the number of people using the facility.
The government is also cautious about intensive measures to suspend normal recovery and strengthen social distancing again.
[Gwondeokcheol / Secretary of Health and Human Services. Yet it so more across the board further strengthen our distancing from any addition or review the situation either stop the current day recovery phase of the angoyo itjineun]
government has strengthened quarantine which was scheduled this morning The announcement of measures has been postponed.
This seems to be because there was no consensus and there was no effective plan to come up with an additional one.