Business restrictions for 1 million multi-facilities are lifted

The social distancing stage for two weeks from 0 o'clock on the 15th to 28th will be lowered to the second stage in the metropolitan area and the 1.5 stage in the non-metropolitan area. In addition, the operating hours of multi-use facilities such as restaurants and cafes in the Seoul metropolitan area will be eased from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. The ban on private gatherings of five or more people will be maintained, but immediate families will be able to gather more than five people.

 

The ban on gatherings will be lifted for entertainment facilities such as clubs and hunting stalls, which had been banned for three months. With the downward revision of the distancing stage, 1 million operating hours restrictions will be completely lifted in the Seoul metropolitan area, including 480,000 academies, reading rooms, and theaters, and 520,000 non-metropolitan restaurants, cafes, and indoor sports facilities. Kwon Deok-cheol, the first deputy director of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters (CDC), held a regular briefing on COVID-19 at the Seoul Government Complex on the morning of the 13th and announced measures to adjust social distancing.

 

◆ Mitigation of quarantine in multi-use facilities…You can have a family gathering of 5 or more. As of 0 o'clock on the 13th, the number of COVID-19 patients in Korea was 345, and the average number of patients per day has decreased to 353 over the past week.

 

The metropolitan area has been stagnant at an average of 200 patients a day for the fourth week, while the non-metropolitan area has fallen below an average of 100 patients a day. The number of confirmed cases nationwide has decreased to less than 2.5 levels (400 to 500 people), satisfying the two levels in the metropolitan area and the one level in the non-metropolitan area. Along with the spread in daily life caused by contact between individuals, the spread of mass infection in multi-use facilities continues, and the occurrence of mutant viruses in Korea is increasing. However, economic damage to the working class is accumulating, and the difficulties of self-employed and small business owners are also increasing. Accordingly, the government lowered the Seoul metropolitan area from 2.5 levels to 2 levels, and the non-capital area from 2 levels to 1.5 levels, respectively. However, local governments in the non-metropolitan area may be raised to two levels according to regional trends. Under this adjustment, the operation time limit of about 480,000 academies, reading rooms, and theaters in the Seoul metropolitan area and 520,000 restaurants, cafes, indoor sports facilities, and party rooms in the non-capital area will be lifted.

 

The ban on private gatherings of only five or more people is maintained. However, in the case of immediate family members, meetings of more than five people will be possible even if they are not living together. Direct families can also visit multi-use facilities such as restaurants. The collection ban will also be lifted for about 40,000 entertainment facilities such as clubs and hunting street vendors. Instead, in order to minimize the risk, it was allowed to operate until 10 p.m. if the core quarantine rules were followed. Sports sales facilities can also hold games exceptionally if there is a facility manager in charge of quarantine. The ban on excess capacity in rooms of accommodation facilities such as meetings and parties is maintained. However, measures that allowed reservations for accommodation facilities to less than two-thirds of the number of rooms will be eased. Measures that sold only window seats for railway tickets such as KTX will also be lifted. [Source] Korean policy briefing (www.Korea.kr)