Starting Today, Contact Visits Allowed at Nursing Hospitals and Facilities... Up to 4 People at a Time

Temporary Resumption for 3 Weeks Until May 22
Negative Test Certificate Required Within 48 Hours... On-site Kit Testing Also Available

[Asia Economy Reporter Jo In-kyung] For nursing hospitals and nursing facilities where only non-contact face-to-face visits were allowed, contact visits will be temporarily permitted for the next three weeks.

According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters on the 30th, contact visits will be allowed at nursing hospitals and nursing facilities from today until the 22nd of next month. The government had only allowed non-contact face-to-face visits at these facilities since November 18 of last year to manage infections, but considering the recent decline in confirmed cases, it has decided to temporarily lift the restrictions.

To have a contact visit, the COVID-19 vaccination criteria must be met.

Patients or residents who have already been confirmed with COVID-19 and visitors can have contact visits if they have completed up to the second dose.

For those not confirmed, hospitalized patients or residents must have received the fourth dose, and visitors must have completed the third dose. Visitors under 17 years old only need to have completed up to the second dose.

Unvaccinated individuals cannot have contact visits even if they have a negative PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test result. However, if an unvaccinated person was recently confirmed positive and has completed a 3-day self-quarantine period without exceeding 90 days, contact visits are allowed.

The number of visitors per patient or resident is limited to a maximum of four, and visits are conducted by prior reservation at each institution.

Visitors must have a negative PCR test or professional rapid antigen test result within 48 hours. If it is difficult to get tested in advance, visitors can bring a self-test kit and perform the test on-site.

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