Korea announced it will stop classifying COVID-19 as a health crisis, lifting almost all pandemic-related restrictions next month, including mandatory isolation, and treat the disease as an endemic. Placing the contagious disease in the endemic category means its presence has become more predictable and manageable much like seasonal influenza.
The government is considering shortening the mandatory COVID-19 isolation period to five days from the current seven in May at the earliest, as part of efforts for the transition to an endemic phase. Unveiling a set of plans, Wednesday, the government said the country will move toward pre-pandemic normality in three phases.
Seoul, Jan 24 (EFE).- South Korea said Tuesday that it has deported the Chinese man who escaped from a quarantine facility after testing positive for Covid-19 on arrival. The 41-year-old man was deported on Jan. 13, eight days after he was arrested at a Seoul hotel for refusing to undergo mandatory quarantine after testing positive …
The government has deported a Chinese national arrested for going into hiding without entering mandatory quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Korea earlier this month, officials said Tuesday.