South Korea eases COVID-19 curfew on businesses outside Seoul
06 February, 2021
South Korea on Saturday (Feb 6) eased curfews on businesses beyond your capital Seoul, permitting them to stay open an hour later, amid a people backlash over restricted curbs to contain COVID-19.
After using aggressive testing and tracing to blunt several previously waves of the coronavirus without drastic lockdowns, the authorities have imposed increasingly rigid social distancing tips as they fight the latest wave of the epidemic.
The restraints have pushed small business owners and self-employed persons to the restrictions of what they are able to endure, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun told an intra-agency meeting on Saturday.
So businesses beyond your capital will now manage to stay open until 10 pm, but "the 9 pm procedures restriction continues to be as is in the metropolitan Seoul area, where more than 70 % of total infections are concentrated but still faces the chance of virus transmission," Chung said.
A lot of the new cases were found in Seoul, the neighbouring port city of Incheon, and Gyeonggi Province, home to a lot more than 25 million people.
A huge selection of restaurant and cafe owners across the country have complained about the impression of the bans on the businesses. Health club owners hurt by limitations reopened in protest against tight social distancing rules.
The Korea Disease Control and Avoidance Agency reported 393 daily new COVID-19 cases on Friday. That brings total attacks reported in South Korea to 80,524, with a death toll of 1 1,464.
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