South Korea considers completely lifting quarantine measures

That includes quit wearing masks as well as the plan to arrange the health system in the future.

In his speech on April 11, Head of the Social Strategy Department of the National Troubleshooting Committee Son Young-rae under the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare said that authorities are in the process of collecting internal opinions as well as from experts to comprehensively evaluate this issue. The current situation is very good.

It is expected that the content will completely remove the restrictive measures will be raised in the meeting of the Committee to help restore daily life on April 13 and is expected to be announced later this week. Accordingly, the Korean health agency is expected to announce a “post-pandemic plan” to normalize life for the people and the health system.

Korea will also downgrade the classification COVID-19 level 2, whereby disease management will proceed as with other endemic diseases.

The number of new infections per day in South Korea has continuously decreased in the past week. (Photo: AP)

Starting this week, public health centers and temporary testing stations in South Korea will no longer provide free rapid tests to people and only conduct PCR tests for vulnerable groups. Elderly. Individuals suspected of having COVID-19 need to go to a private clinic or hospital for testing and will be charged around 5,000 Won ($4.07).

Regarding the development of the COVID-19 epidemic, the Korean health agency said that the infection level was lower than the forecasted number of domestic studies. Critical cases and deaths also tend to decrease.

Statistics of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KDCA) in the past few days show that the number of new infections per day has continuously decreased in the past one week and the situation is changing positively. Critical cases and deaths also tend to decrease.

On April 11, the number of COVID-19 cases in South Korea for the first time in 7 weeks fell below 100,000 cases / day amid the wave of epidemics in the country due to the Omicron variant, which is on a downward trend after… peaked in mid-March.

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