There is a controversy over the quarantine awareness of the public that Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun has overcame 600 people because of the spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
On the 17th, Prime Minister Chung mentioned at the Corona 19 Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters meeting held at the government office in Seoul, “The number of confirmed patients who had been slowing down for a while during the New Year’s holiday continued to increase, and today it has surpassed 600 again in 39 days since January 7th.” .
Prime Minister Jeong emphasized, “The government’s lowering of the distance is not intended to loosen quarantine,” he said. “It is an alternative that was devised after trying to ensure that self-employed and small business owners earn a living while making quarantine more thorough.”
“What is more worrisome than the quarantine situation walking on a thin ice plate is the weakened quarantine consciousness that is being revealed everywhere.” “There are cases where the quarantine rules are not properly observed in clubs that have been opened since 5 a.m. and 10 p.m. due to limited business hours. When the bar is closed, some people move to a lodging facility and continue drinking,” he pointed out the public consciousness.
He said, “Do not find the gaps in the quarantine rules and abuse them, but fill the gaps together to make the bank of quarantine more solid.”
However, according to the results of analysis based on mobile phone traffic data by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of movements last weekend was 27256,000 in the metropolitan area and 32533,000 in the non-metropolitan area, a decrease of 24% compared to November 14 and 15, the weekend just before the increase in distance. .
Compared to February 6th and 7th, before the lowering of distance measures was implemented, it also decreased by 6.3%.
This is the reason for criticism that the government blames the increase in confirmed cases even though the people are faithfully following the government’s quarantine measures.