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There were many people who visited the Holy Sepulcher today (23rd) a week before the Lunar New Year holiday. This is because some memorial parks are closed during the holidays. Nursing home visits are also prohibited. Due to Omicron, it has become difficult to spend this Lunar New Year as a holiday.



This is reporter Jung Gu-hee.



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Citizens visited the memorial park ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.



We offer food prepared with care and bow down to commemorate the spirit of the deceased.



[Junhee Choi / Visitor of the Holy Sepulcher: (During the Lunar New Year holiday), I came



here in advance because I didn't have time.] Some memorial parks, including this one, ban the Holy Sepulcher itself during the holidays.



Family gatherings during the Lunar New Year holiday have also become difficult.



[Sung Mi-ok / Nowon-gu, Seoul: It's been a while since I haven't been able to get together with my family. There are still preschoolers and there are lower grades of elementary school, so it is difficult to get together. (Child) was not vaccinated.]



Nursing homes and nursing hospitals are prohibited from contacting and visiting from tomorrow to February 6th.



Only non-face-to-face visits are possible through advance reservations, and contact visits are permitted only under urgent circumstances such as death, under the judgment of the operator.



Starting this week, the quarantine standards related to Lunar New Year will be strengthened, and the quarantine pass part will be partially relaxed.



Starting tomorrow, even if you have been hospitalized after vaccination or have applied for compensation due to an adverse reaction and are judged to have insufficient causality, you will be recognized as eligible for the quarantine pass exception.



If you submit a confirmation of hospitalization, etc. to the public health center, you can get a confirmation of exception online or offline.



The government estimates that there are 12,000 to 17,000 additional quarantine pass exceptions.



It is also important to increase the third dose as much as possible against the spread of Omicron.



Currently, the tertiary vaccination rate is 49.2% of the population and 84.7% for those aged 60 and over.



The government plans to continue to urge people in their 50s (64.2%) and those in their 30s and 40s to be vaccinated.



(Video coverage: Park Hyun-chul, video editing: Kim Jong-mi)