Busan City has eased the level of Corona 19 social distancing in two stages from 0 o’clock on the 25th for a week. It has been 40 days since it was upgraded to 2.5 steps on the 15th of last month. The number of meetings and events is reduced from less than 50 to less than 100, and the business hours of general management facilities such as academies, movie theaters, and marts (9 pm to 5 am the next day) will be lifted.
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| On the 24th, 10 people, including 1 worker and 9 patients, were infected with Corona 19 at Bugok Nursing Hospital in Geumjeong-gu, Busan, and medical staff are transporting confirmed patients to the negative pressure ward. Reporter Jeon Min-cheol [email protected] |
Kim Seon-jo, head of the planning and coordination office of the city, said on the 24th, “We will ease the level of distance from the 25th to the 31st in two stages, and then adjust it in connection with the government’s decision to distance distance, including the New Year holidays.
Although sporadic group infection continues, the city believes that stable management is possible with the current quarantine system, with the scale of outbreaks decreasing. The average number of new confirmed patients per day in Busan for the last week (17-23) was nearly half compared to the previous week (36). The number of black-and-white infections increased slightly from 14% to 21.5%, but the infection reproductive index decreased significantly from 1.08 to 0.48.
When the second stage is applied, the limit for the number of events and gatherings will be expanded from less than 50 to less than 100. The same applies to the number of wedding halls and funeral halls. Business hours for general management facilities such as academies, classrooms, movie theaters, PC cafes, reading rooms, department stores and large marts are lifted, and sauna and steam room operations are permitted for the bathhouse business. In addition, professional sports can be admitted to the spectator within 10%, and religious activities can hold regular worship services, masses, and court meetings with a limit of 20% of the number of seats.
There were 23 new cases in Busan on this day. Of these, 10 are a worker (1) and a patient at Bugok Nursing Hospital in Geumjeong-gu. It was found in the preliminary inspection of high-risk facilities by the city’s quarantine authorities, and through additional epidemiological investigations, cohort quarantine is reviewed for 3 wards in which the infected person occurred. Other than this, there were 6 infections among family members, 1 foreigner, 1 contact with confirmed patients, and 5 Buddha images. 11 in Gyeongnam and 2 in Ulsan. Most of them are contacts of existing confirmed cases. Reporter Choi Seung-hee