Require’Voice Verification’ for all Japanese and English entrant
The number of new confirmed cases has been below 1,000 for the last five consecutive days. For this reason, it is evaluated that the momentum of the’third pandemic’ of Corona 19 has softened. However, it is too early to rest assured that group infections such as nursing hospitals and churches are still there, and there are also confirmed cases of mutant virus from the UK, which have a strong spread.
Local outbreaks are 596, and overseas inflows are 45. By region, there are 180 in Seoul, 195 in Gyeonggi, and 46 in Incheon, 421 in the metropolitan area alone. As for major infection cases, cumulative confirmed cases are increasing in Incheon shopping centers and nursing homes in Bupyeong-gu, in addition to the Dongbu detention center in Seoul.
In Japan, the most confirmed cases per day came out. According to NHK, 7,882 newly confirmed coronavirus cases were confirmed in Japan yesterday when an emergency was declared in four metropolitan areas including Tokyo. It was the highest for four consecutive days. Among these new confirmed cases, the number of confirmed cases in Osaka, where an emergency has not been declared, is expected to increase the number of areas covered by the emergency.
In the UK, the number of new coronavirus confirmed on the 8th local time was totaled at 68,053. It is the largest since the Corona Pandemic The number of deaths per day was 1,325, the highest.
We have made it mandatory for people entering the UK and Japan to submit voice verification. Starting next week, the UK will be required to provide proof that it was negative in the Corona 19 test conducted within 72 hours of departure to enter the country by plane, train, or ship. The same measures will be applied in Japan from the 13th of this month.
