SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea health authorities said on Wednesday they had no instant plans to renew rigorous social distancing guidelines regardless of a fresh coronavirus outbreak in the capital of Seoul.
Quarantine worker spray disinfectants in front of a night club on the night spots in the Itaewon neighborhood, following the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) break out, in Seoul, South Korea, May 12,2020 Yonhap/via REUTERS
Officials have scrambled to trace and test thousands of people over the previous week after a cluster of brand-new infections linked to clubs and bars in Seoul’s Itaewon district raised worries of a 2nd wave break out.
Authorities have connected at least 119 cases of COVID-19 to the night areas, which had simply reopened as part of the country’s relocate to reduce lockdown steps to start its struggling economy. Eleven of the 119 patients are 19 years of ages or younger.
Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip stated bringing back the social distancing guidelines was not likely as long as the day-to-day variety of brand-new cases remained listed below 50 and authorities were able to trace 95%of all infections.
” For now, we will still monitor how the current transmissions go and evaluate whether we ought to reassess our distancing policy,” Kim informed a media instruction.
The Korea Centers for Illness Control