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With the number of new confirmed cases falling to 10 in Busan in five days, social distancing measures will be eased to 1.5 steps.
The city of Busan announced on the 13th that “from the 15th, it has decided to ease the social distancing for two weeks to 1.5 steps and strengthen and apply some quarantine measures.”
Restrictions on operating hours for restaurants, cafes, indoor sports facilities, and singing practice areas are lifted, and entertainment facilities resume business.
However, quarantine regulations such as prohibiting group use of 5 or more people, wearing masks, and making a list of visitors must be observed. In the event of violation of the quarantine rules, a fine for negligence and a ban on group for two weeks are imposed.
In the bathhouse business where the risk of infection has not been resolved, the operation of sweat rooms and food consumption are continuously prohibited by applying strengthened quarantine measures. Like nursing hospitals, nursing homes expand preemptive examinations twice a week.
On this day, there were 16 new confirmed cases in Busan, a cumulative 3014. Most of the infections are due to contact with existing confirmed patients, such as family infections, and two foreigners and one patient being investigated for the source of infection were added.
Two additional employees were confirmed at Songsan Nursing Home in Jung-gu, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases totaled 24 (7 employees, 17 patients). The facility is being quarantined in the same group due to confirmed cases on three floors.
In the last week, there were a total of 129 new cases in Busan, with an average of 18.4 cases occurring per day. The infection reproductive index was 0.84, and 11.6% of cases with an unclear infection route.
The city said that the number of confirmed cases has fluctuated due to group infection in some multi-use facilities such as public baths and nursing homes, but the number of confirmed cases is being managed relatively stably.
Currently, 335 patients are being treated, and 17 patients are severely ill. Reporter Lee Young-sil [email protected]