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South Korea will extend prevention and sanitation guidelines against Covid-19 until daily new infections drop to single digits.
The decision comes as the country continues to see cases persist in the mid-double digits - 56 today - following a series of new clusters in the Greater Seoul area.
Kim Sung-min leads our coverage tonight.
The South Korean government announced on Friday it would extend its COVID-19 prevention guidelines for the Seoul metropolitan area... after a series of cluster infections in the capital region.
The measure was initially set to come to an end this Sunday... but now it has been extended indefinitely.
"There is no end date to this... and it will remain until the new confirmed cases are in the single digits."
The measure comes as around 96-percent of local infections over the past two weeks came from the capital area.
The government will expand its definition of 'high-risk facilities' to include more places other than the 8 types of facilities already following extra measures.
It will also take stricter legal action against businesses that don't follow the law.
QR codes or "quick response codes" will become mandatory for private education facilities and Internet cafes to keep track of visitors at high-risk facilities.
But the government has decided not to go back to stronger social distancing measures like preventing students from going to school, as those stronger measures could harm children's education and people's livelihoods.
The Education Ministry also aligned its policies with the government by extending until June 30th its limit that caps schools in the capital area at one-third capacity.
On Friday, South Korea reported 56 new COVID-19 cases... of which 43 were community transmissions.
There was one new death...bringing the death toll to two-hundred-77.
Now, the total number of cases in South Korea stands at twelve-thousand-3.
Kim Sung-min, Arirang News.