"No Elevation to Social Distancing Level 3"... Metropolitan Area Social Distancing Level 2.5 Extended Until January 3 Next Year (Update)
Comprehensive Review of Step Adjustments While Monitoring Patient Trends and Healthcare System Capacity Through This Week
![Kwon Deok-cheol, First Deputy Head of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (Minister of Health and Welfare), is briefing on the results of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters meeting on the response to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) at the Government Seoul Office Building on the afternoon of the 27th. [Image source=Yonhap News]](http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/img_view.htm?img=2020122716380186972_1609054680.jpg)
Kwon Deok-cheol, First Deputy Head of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (Minister of Health and Welfare), is briefing on the results of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters meeting on the response to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) at the Government Seoul Office Building on the afternoon of the 27th. [Image source=Yonhap News]
View original image[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heung-soon] The government has decided not to escalate social distancing to level 3 and to extend the current level 2.5 measures applied in the metropolitan area and level 2 measures in non-metropolitan areas until January 3 next year. Whether to adjust the social distancing levels will be reconsidered based on the situation thereafter.
The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters (CDSCH) decided at its meeting held on the afternoon of the 27th to extend the metropolitan area’s level 2.5 social distancing and the non-metropolitan area’s level 2 measures, which were scheduled to end on the 28th, for six days until January 3, 2021, in line with the special quarantine reinforcement period for the year-end and New Year holidays (December 24, 2020 ? January 3, 2021).
Kwon Deok-cheol, the first vice head of the CDSCH (Minister of Health and Welfare), explained, "Currently, the capacity of the quarantine and medical system can be maintained, and it is necessary to observe the effects of reducing contact through the special quarantine reinforcement measures for high-risk facilities, gatherings, and travel during the year-end and New Year holidays."
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The CDSCH stated that it plans to comprehensively review the social distancing levels after January 3, when the year-end and New Year quarantine reinforcement measures end, while monitoring patient trends and medical system capacity through this week. It also plans to strengthen inspections and management of high-risk facilities such as nursing hospitals and nursing homes.
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