From the 1st of next month, the implementation of the quarantine pass (inoculation certificate/voice confirmation system) will be temporarily suspended at multi-use facilities such as restaurants and cafes, and at facilities vulnerable to infection such as medical institutions and nursing hospitals.
The quarantine pass applied to gatherings, assemblies, and events of 50 or more people and the quarantine pass for teenagers scheduled from April will also be suspended.
The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters announced today (28th) that it received a report from the Central Quarantine Countermeasure Headquarters of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) and confirmed it after discussion.
Accordingly, the quarantine pass will be released from 00:00 on March 1 for 11 multi-use facilities such as restaurants and cafes, facilities vulnerable to infection, and gatherings, assemblies, and events of more than 50 people.
This means that all of the 'QR authentication' verification process that you had to go through when entering the quarantine pass-applied facility is gone.
Specifically, ▲ entertainment facilities (entertainment pubs, danran pubs, clubs, nights, hunting pubs, emotional pubs, colatech, dance halls) ▲ singing (coin) practice areas ▲ indoor sports facilities ▲ bathhouse business ▲ bicycle racing, horse racing, horse racing, casinos ▲ restaurants ·Café ▲ Multi room ▲ PC room ▲ Sports stadium (indoor) ▲ Party room ▲ The quarantine pass applied to 11 types of multi-use facilities such as massage parlors and massage parlors will disappear.
In addition, the quarantine pass applied to hospitalizations and visits to inmates will be canceled at facilities vulnerable to infection such as ▲ medical institutions ▲ nursing facilities/hospitals ▲ facilities for the severely disabled and dementia ▲ senior citizens’ facilities and facilities for the elderly such as senior citizens and welfare centers.
However, as social distancing measures applied to large-scale events and gatherings remain the same, the maximum number of people is limited to 299 regardless of whether or not they are vaccinated.
However, the government added the condition that "this measure is a provisional measure in consideration of the current quarantine situation and policy," and that "it can be resumed or adjusted depending on the occurrence of new mutations and vaccination status."
The government explains that the quarantine pass will be lifted to increase policy consistency as the quarantine system emphasizing autonomy, such as the lifting of the quarantine obligation for those living with the confirmed person regardless of their vaccination history, will be implemented from the 1st of next month.
In addition, as the court's decision to suspend the effectiveness of the quarantine pass recently came out, it was added that the purpose was to minimize confusion at the site, considering that the application of the quarantine pass has changed by region and age.
In fact, in some areas such as Seoul, Gyeonggi, Daejeon, Incheon, and Chungbuk, the effect of quarantine passes for teenagers has been suspended.
On the 16th, some applications were cited in Gyeonggi-do to suspend the enforcement of quarantine passes for exhibitions and fairs, and on the 23rd, the first court ruling in Daegu to stop applying the quarantine pass to adults who are not teenagers when entering restaurants and cafes. I did.
In addition, the government said that it also aims to reduce the burden of work at public health centers due to the issuance of voice certificates for quarantine passes.
Currently, an average of 250,000 rapid antigen tests are being conducted at screening clinics and temporary screening centers across the country.
In fact, in the case of the last 16-22 days, an average of 124,000 voice confirmations were issued a day, leading to an overload of health centers.
Accordingly, from the 1st of next month, along with the suspension of quarantine passes, the issuance of negative confirmation certificates at public health centers will also be completely stopped.
If negative verification is required for purposes other than the quarantine pass, you can receive a negative verification statement from a private medical institution.
The authorities said, "With the number of confirmed cases rapidly increasing to more than 170,000 a day, the limited diagnostic test resources at public health centers should be focused on testing high-risk groups and those living with the confirmed patients. We plan to put it in,” he said.