7,000 Violators of COVID-19 Quarantine Rules... 'Gathering Ban Violations' Most Frequent
70% of Violation Cases Concentrated in the Seoul Metropolitan Area
Assemblyman Park Wansu: "Quarantine Rules Must Be Established for Vacation Season"
[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Gwan-joo] Since the domestic influx of COVID-19, nearly 7,000 individuals violating quarantine rules have been identified.
According to data submitted by the National Police Agency to Park Wan-soo, a member of the National Assembly's Public Administration and Security Committee from the People Power Party, it was confirmed that 6,976 people have been prosecuted for violating COVID-19 related laws from February last year to the 6th of this month.
Among them, 4,147 were referred to the prosecution, and 17 were detained. The remaining 779 were not prosecuted, and investigations are currently ongoing for 2,050 individuals. By violation type, the most common was violation of gathering bans with 4,836 cases, followed by 1,718 cases of quarantine violations, 278 cases of obstruction of epidemiological investigations, and 144 other violations.
By region, 2,205 cases were reported in Gyeonggi, 1,935 in Seoul, and 723 in Incheon, with about 70% of quarantine-related law violations concentrated in the metropolitan area. Among non-metropolitan areas, Busan had 436 cases and Gwangju 405 cases.
Representative Park said, "Due to COVID-19, many citizens have been threatened not only in their daily lives but also in their livelihoods, and some have even been detained for violating laws. To quickly end this misfortune, both our citizens and the government must make every effort to end the fourth wave."
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He added, "With the summer vacation season approaching and increased movement expected as people leave their residential areas, it is necessary to establish and recommend summer vacation quarantine guidelines to the public, separate from the current quarantine stages."
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