SEOUL - South Korea on Thursday (May 11) lowered its crisis level for Covid-19 and will from June no longer require infected people to quarantine for seven days, dropping one of the country’s few remaining pandemic-related restrictions. The health authorities will still recommend five days of self-isolation for infected people, but it will not be mandatory. “I am glad that...
The health authorities will still recommend five days of self-isolation for infected people, but it will not be mandatory.SEOUL - South Korea on Thursday lowered its crisis level for Covid-19 and will from June no longer require infected people to quarantine for seven days, dropping one of the country’s few remaining pandemic-related restrictions.
“I am glad that people will be able to resume normal life after three years and four months,” President Yoon Suk-yeol told a televised meeting with government officials and medical workers to mark the lowering of the crisis level from the highest level of 4 to 3. Mr Yoon said the government would continue to provide financial support for Covid-19 testing and treatment “for a while”.
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