<Anchor> The
government is expected to announce on Friday whether it is acceptable to take off the mask outdoors.
According to our coverage, it seems that we will choose one of two options: delaying the decision by two weeks, or lifting the duty to wear a mask in early May and allowing it to be used where necessary.
Reporter Han Seong-hee reported exclusively.
<Reporter> The
government has narrowed down the options to two over the lifting of the mandatory outdoor mask wear.
One option with a little more weight is to postpone the duty to wear it again by two weeks.
It will be decided around the 15th of the next month after the new government is inaugurated.
It seems that he was conscious of the fact that the Presidential Transition Committee repeatedly opposed the removal of outdoor masks.
[Ahn Cheol-soo/Chairman of the Presidential Transition Committee: It is not enough to just remove the mask outdoors, and at the same time, when entering and leaving the building, it is necessary to take measures that recommend or make it mandatory to use a mask (indoors) at the same time...
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However, we plan to materialize the current guidelines for not wearing a mask if you fall 2m outdoors.
It is expected to include the content that it is not necessary to wear a mask when taking a walk or exercising, or when doing outdoor activities with family members living together.
The second plan is to lift the duty of outdoor masks from May 1.
However, considering the risk of infection, it is strongly recommended to wear it in situations where it is necessary.
People who have symptoms such as fever and cough or who have not completed their vaccinations are asked to wear a mask.
The same is true for cases where it is difficult to keep distance, such as attending assemblies, performances, games or events, or when there is a concern about the spread of droplets such as choruses or shouts.
The government plans to make a decision this coming Friday by combining quarantine indicators and opinions from various fields.
The number of new corona cases exceeded 80,000, and the government predicted that the number of confirmed cases per day in the next month would fall below 40,000.
After a month or two, I thought that the decline could stop and there could be a plateau that would no longer decrease.
There are also many variables such as reinfection cases.
The estimated number of reinfected cases was about 55,000, or 0.35% of all confirmed cases, doubling in one month.
There were also 52 deaths.
(Video editing: Kim Jong-mi, CG: Kim Hong-sik, Ban So-hee, Kim Jeong-eun)
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