This is the newsroom. As of today (2nd) 0 o’clock, there are 824 corona19 confirmed cases. The government held a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters a while ago and officially announced that it would extend social distancing for two weeks. Press station connect.
Reporter Jeong Jong-moon, please tell us in detail what the government announced.
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The government just announced that the current social distancing phase will be extended by two weeks and implemented until the 17th.
Therefore, stage 2.5 is maintained in the metropolitan area and stage 2 is maintained outside the metropolitan area.
He said that special quarantine measures for the year-end and New Year holidays, which ban private gatherings with more than five people, will also be expanded nationwide and implemented for two weeks.
He explained that although the number of group infections in specific facilities decreased a lot, it reflected the fact that the spread in daily life is the most.
For some facilities, quarantine regulations have been adjusted.
In the case of academies in the metropolitan area, classes with 9 or fewer people are allowed to operate with a limit.
Ski resorts are also allowed to operate, but the number of people is limited to one-third of the capacity and is open until 21:00.
Only equipment rentals and changing rooms are operated, and additional facilities such as restaurants and cafes are closed.
As of today’s 0 o’clock, the number of new confirmed cases decreased by 205 from the previous day, but the average of domestic confirmed cases for the past week still exceeded 900.
Of the local outbreaks, more than 500 confirmed cases are concentrated in the metropolitan area.
There are also continuous cases of local infections or group infections at major facilities.
The cumulative number of confirmed cases related to the eastern detention center in Seoul was 937, close to 1,000.
Most of the infected are prisoners.
The government today re-runs a full inspection of the eastern detention center.