The country has been for several weeks every day between 35 and 50 new infections, mostly in Seoul.
After you have mastered the epidemic, Seoul recognizes face a rebound of the epidemic for more than a month. South Korea has admitted on Tuesday that she was fighting since mid-may against a “second wave” of coronaviruses, with between 35 and 50 new cases reported every day, mostly in Seoul and its surroundings.
The country was in February the second-most affected by the epidemic, after the China where it had appeared. But the south Korean authorities were successful in controlling the situation through a strategy very thorough testing and tracing of contacts of infected people, without even impose containment required. The guidelines of social distancing, however, had been relaxed after the holidays in early may, and the country had pretty much returned to normal operation.
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Here, however, several weeks ago that he saves each day between 35 and 50 new infections, mostly in Seoul and its region, an area that concentrates half of the population of the country. “We believe that the second wave lasts from the may holidays,” said the director of the Centers Korean control and disease prevention (KCDC), Jung Eun-kyeong.
The possibility of much more stringent
measures of social distancing have been réimposées the end of may after outbreaks of contamination in Seoul and nearby. Most of the cases registered over the past three weeks, however, have been imported. In total, 46 new cases have been reported Tuesday, bringing the national total to 12 484. On the 46, 30 were passengers arrived from abroad.
The mayor of Seoul Park Won-soon, warned on Monday that measures will be much more strict action would be taken in the city if the number of infections was higher than 30 on three consecutive days. On Tuesday, six have been counted. Because if the capital could not stem the current wave, the total of new cases daily could be 800 a month, he said.
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The south Korean president Moon Jae-in, however, says “confident”. “What we have learned these past five months, it is that we can prevent the infections if one follows the basic rules of decontamination and the instructions of the government”, he estimated Tuesday.
