Gwangju City Extends 'Special Quarantine Week' by One Week Until the 30th

Business Restrictions for Entertainment Venues from 10 PM to 5 AM Next Day

Restaurants and Cafes Limited to Takeout and Delivery Only... Ban on Private Gatherings of 5 or More Maintained

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Gwangju Metropolitan City is extending the special COVID-19 quarantine week until the 30th.

Kim Jonghyo, Deputy Mayor of Gwangju, announced in a briefing on the 23rd, "Considering the recent number of confirmed cases and infection patterns, Gwangju City will extend the special quarantine week by one week."

Six types of entertainment facilities (entertainment bars, danran bars, emotional pubs, colateks (including dance halls), hunting pochas, hold'em pubs), singing practice rooms, indoor standing concert halls, party rooms, indoor sports facilities, bathhouses, reading rooms, and study cafes will have their operating hours restricted from 10 PM to 5 AM the next day.

Restaurants and cafes will only be allowed takeout and delivery from 10 PM to 5 AM the next day.

Restrictions such as banning private gatherings of five or more people and prohibiting activities of sports clubs related to recreational sports will remain in place.

The temporary screening clinic at Gwangju City Hall will also extend its operating hours from 9 AM to 10 PM for an additional week.

Deputy Mayor Kim said, "Although restrictions on some facilities are inevitably maintained, if the average daily number of confirmed cases drops to single digits over the week and the situation improves, we will consider easing quarantine rules. We ask for the active cooperation of citizens in complying with the quarantine guidelines."

In the Gwangju area, the average daily number of confirmed cases has remained in double digits at 13.4 from the 16th to the 22nd.

Accordingly, the quarantine authorities have been operating a special quarantine week since May 17 to block the chain of local infections, focusing on strengthening quarantine rules and conducting special inspections and crackdowns on some facilities such as entertainment establishments, striving to minimize damage to the local economy while enhancing quarantine effectiveness.

From the 15th to the 21st, inspections of 2,297 facilities including restaurants, cafes, entertainment venues, and academies found a total of 96 quarantine violations, resulting in 6 fines and 90 administrative guidance measures.

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