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, medical institutions and nursing hospitals, etc.
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 Countermeasures Headquarters announced today (28th) that it had 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 the 'QR authentication' verification procedures that you had to go through when entering the quarantine pass-applied facilities are disappearing.
Specifically, ▲ entertainment facilities (entertainment pubs, danran pubs, clubs, nights, hunting pubs, emotional pubs, colatechs, dance halls) ▲ singing (coin) practice areas ▲ indoor sports facilities ▲ bathing facilities ▲ bicycle racing, horse racing, horse racing, casinos ▲ restaurants ·The quarantine pass applied to 11 types of multi-use facilities such as cafe ▲ multi room ▲ PC room ▲ sports stadium (indoor) ▲ party room ▲ massage parlor and massage parlor will disappear.
In addition, the quarantine pass that was applied to hospitalizations and visits to residents 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 such as senior centers and welfare centers for the elderly.
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 North Chungcheong, the effect of quarantine passes for teenagers has been suspended.
On the 16th, some applications for suspension of the quarantine pass for exhibitions and expositions were cited in Gyeonggi-do, 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. .
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.