Lockdowns toughen in Seoul and Sydney as Delta variant Covid-19 outbreaks grow
By Jake Kwon and Angus Watson, CNN
The capital of South Korea and Australia’s largest city announced Friday they would increase their Covid-19 prevention measures to combat growing outbreaks of the Delta variant in both cities.
Seoul will raise its distancing measures to its highest level ever to counter surging Covid-19 numbers, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said in a briefing on Friday, with the Seoul Metropolitan Area to enter distancing level 4 for two weeks starting on Monday.
In South Korea’s four-tier social distancing system, level 4 is the strongest. The Seoul Metropolitan Area, with a population of 25 million people, had been under distancing level 2, which banned gathering of more than four people and dining in restaurants after 10 p.m.
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Posted : 2021-07-03 10:16
Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae / Yonhap
A new act will enable South Korea to establish a national committee in charge of ensuring the country follows a stable, long-term education policy regardless of any change of government, officials said Saturday.
Earlier this week, a National Assembly plenary meeting passed a relevant act on the establishment and management of the envisioned National Education Committee.
The launch of the committee was part of President Moon Jae-in s election campaign, aimed at ensuring that the country s education policy, often reversed and revised upon the inauguration of a new administration, is established and implemented in a stable, long-term manner.
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