Jeju-style Social Distancing Extended for 2 Weeks Until Next Month 14

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters (Jeju) Reporter Park Chang-won] Jeju Special Self-Governing Province announced on the 26th that it will extend the current Level 1.5 social distancing measures until midnight on the 14th of next month, in accordance with the government's social distancing adjustment policy.

Jeju Province will participate in the government's measures by maintaining the current level to manage the number of confirmed cases stably and prepare a quarantine management system based on autonomy and responsibility in connection with the government's future social distancing reform.

However, some quarantine measures for multi-use facilities that were strengthened in the Jeju style will be adjusted to the nationwide Level 1.5 standard from 0:00 on the 1st of next month. Other measures, such as the ban on private gatherings of five or more people, will remain unchanged.

Accordingly, bathhouse businesses will be allowed to operate sweating rooms and sleeping rooms, which were previously prohibited, and the use of outdoor golf course shower rooms will also be permitted.

Wedding halls and funeral halls will be limited to a cumulative total of 500 people per ceremony per day, and must comply with core quarantine rules such as spacing tables and installing partitions.

Outdoor golf courses will allow play with up to five people including caddies, and locker rooms and shower rooms will also be operable.

Six types of entertainment facilities including pubs, karaoke bars, emotional pubs, colatecs, hunting pochas, and holdem pubs will maintain the operating restriction time until 10 p.m.

Core quarantine rules such as ▲a maximum of 4 people per room ▲no dancing in clubs and nightclubs ▲no movement between tables or rooms ▲mandatory use of electronic entry logs must be followed.

For religious activities such as regular worship, mass, Buddhist ceremonies, and memorial services, participation must be limited to within 30% of seating capacity, and small group meetings and meals organized by religious facilities remain prohibited.

Violations of quarantine guidelines or gathering bans will result in fines of up to 3 million KRW for businesses and up to 100,000 KRW for individuals.

Furthermore, if core quarantine rule violations are detected within a business, a gathering ban order will be enforced regardless of the number of violations.

The one-strike-out system will be applied without exception to businesses or individuals violating COVID-19 quarantine rules, and they will be excluded from economic support such as living support funds or the government's 4th disaster relief funds.

If the violation is serious and causes a cluster infection, the government will actively exercise its right to claim compensation for quarantine costs and treatment expenses for confirmed cases.

Im Tae-bong, head of the Jeju COVID-19 Quarantine Response Promotion Team, said, “This social distancing is characterized by applying the same standards as the government for quarantine rules in bathhouse businesses, wedding and funeral halls, and outdoor golf courses, which were previously strengthened in the Jeju style.”

Im added, “Since vaccination has started today for residents under 65 and workers in nursing hospitals and nursing facilities in the Jeju area, we ask all residents to participate in complying with personal and facility quarantine rules, such as Jeju Safe Code certification when entering multi-use facilities, to create a more stable vaccination environment.”

Meanwhile, as of 1 p.m. on the same day, the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Jeju was 568. This month, 46 people in Jeju have been confirmed with COVID-19, and 147 people have been confirmed since the beginning of this year.

The average number of new confirmed cases per day over the past week was 1.71 (12 confirmed cases from the 19th to the 25th).

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