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government has decided to extend the current social distancing by three more weeks until after the Lunar New Year holiday. However, the number of private gatherings was reduced from 4 to 6 people.
Correspondent Ho-won Choi.
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government has decided to extend the current social distancing for three weeks.
However, the number of private gatherings has been increased from 4 to 6, but the limit of 4 will remain until this weekend and will increase to 6 from next Monday.
The business hours of restaurants, cafes, indoor sports facilities and entertainment facilities are limited to 9 pm.
PC rooms, movie theaters, and performance halls are open at 10pm.
[Kwon Deok-cheol / Minister of Health and Welfare: I am most concerned that the spread of Omicron will increase and the elderly will be infected in large numbers.]
This distancing will continue until the 6th of the following month after the Lunar New Year holiday.
The government also decided to implement a separate 'New Year's Day special quarantine measures' for two weeks from the 20th to the 2nd of next month.
First of all, it is recommended not to visit elderly parents, relatives, or acquaintances who have not been vaccinated or have not been vaccinated before the third dose.
For the Lunar New Year holidays, only window seats are sold, and expressway tolls are normally collected.
Face-to-face visits to nursing hospitals are prohibited, and ceremonial rooms at the cemetery and burial facilities are closed.
Meanwhile, yesterday (13th), there were 4,542 new confirmed cases of Corona 19 in one day.
Among them, the number of overseas inflows was 409, a new record for three days in a row.
The number of severe cases of severe severe disease was 659, which has fallen to the 600 level in 46 days since the end of November.
The government is planning to adjust the distance three more times with an interval of 2-3 weeks from now on, and it will be adjusted in stages, taking as key indicators such as less than 700 critically ill patients a day and 50% or less utilization of beds for critically ill patients with COVID-19 as key indicators.