Indoor Mask Mandate Lifted in Gundo... Masks Required in Operational Areas

[Asia Economy Yang Nak-gyu, Military Specialist Reporter] The military will also remove masks indoors. However, mask-wearing will remain mandatory in key operational facilities and spaces where an unspecified number of people may come into contact.

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On the 30th, the Ministry of National Defense announced that from this day forward, guidelines easing indoor mask-wearing obligations will be implemented across all branches of the military. Accordingly, the indoor mask-wearing mandate will mostly be lifted, but it will remain mandatory in military healthcare institutions (military hospitals, military medical facilities).

The military plans to add facilities that consider the military’s unique characteristics to the list of places where mask-wearing is "strongly recommended," in addition to the health authorities’ guidelines. New recruits must wear masks until they test negative on their initial genetic (PCR) test upon entering training institutions.

In particular, mask-wearing is strongly recommended to continue in key operational facilities as determined by each branch, such as command and control rooms, naval vessels, and the Central Air Defense Control Center (MCRC), as well as in shared vehicles like external medical buses, visiting rooms, and administrative information offices?spaces where the risk of infection entering the unit through contact with an unspecified number of people is high.

Furthermore, considering on-site conditions such as crowd density and droplet transmission risk, commanders may expand the scope of mask-wearing based on their judgment.

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