{"id":1126815,"date":"2021-12-16T22:28:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T03:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1126815"},"modified":"2021-12-16T22:28:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T03:28:51","slug":"coronavirus-south-korea-limits-private-gatherings-to-four-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coronavirus-south-korea-limits-private-gatherings-to-four-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: South Korea Limits Private Gatherings to Four People"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcoronavirus-south-korea-limits-private-gatherings-to-four-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1126815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1128710165-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">South Korea announced Thursday plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20211216001452315?section=national\/politics\">limit<\/a> private gatherings in the country to four people from December 18 to January 2 in an effort to curb transmission of the Chinese coronavirus during the winter holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Korea will reduce the maximum private gathering size to four people nationwide and restore a 9:00 p.m. curfew on restaurant and cafe business hours,\u201d South Korean Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum told reporters during a government meeting at South Korea\u2019s Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters in Seoul on December 16.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>South Korean government authorities will begin enforcing the strict anti-virus protocol on December 18. Only individuals fully vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus will be allowed to gather privately in groups of four or less over the next two weeks, Kim said. The stipulation suggests unvaccinated people are expected not to gather privately at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the new measures \u2026 the use of restaurants and cafes will be restricted to up to four vaccinated people per visit,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.6470588235294\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(3rd LD) S. Korea to reduce private gathering size to 4, restore 9 p.m. business curfew: PM <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sWrHxjCN9k\">https:\/\/t.co\/sWrHxjCN9k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yonhap News Agency (@YonhapNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YonhapNews\/status\/1471354712687783937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThose who have not been vaccinated [against the Chinese coronavirus] will be able to use the facilities alone or request take-out or delivery,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBars, nightclubs and other entertainment venues will also be subject to the 9:00 p.m. curfew while movie theaters, concert halls, and internet cafes, however, will be able to operate until 10:00 p.m.,\u201d Kim said.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures team decided to tighten restrictions on gathering for the next two weeks because the country is facing a \u201cvirus crisis,\u201d according to Kim.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean health officials have logged record-high daily tallies of new Chinese coronavirus cases over the past two weeks, with the national caseload <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/3159753\/coronavirus-south-korea-cases-hit-record-7850-australia-reopens\">reaching<\/a> an all-time high of 7,850 on December 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he number of COVID-19 fatalities hit an all-time high of 94 on Tuesday [December 14],\u201d according to Yonhap news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 92 percent of South Korean adults are fully vaccinated, but the number of new cases has surged nearly five-fold since \u2026 [previous social distancing] rules were eased last month, while the number of serious cases has tripled,\u201d Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/south-korea-reinstate-distancing-curbs-amid-spike-covid-19-cases-2021-12-16\/\">observed<\/a> on December 16.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea announced its new two-week virus crackdown just six weeks into a \u201cliving with Covid [Chinese coronavirus]\u201d scheme which saw the federal government ease previous pandemic curbs on gathering sizes and restaurant hours. The now-scrapped policy placed no limits on businesses\u2019 opening hours and \u201callowed gatherings of up to eight people regardless of their vaccination status,\u201d Reuters recalled on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea announced Thursday plans to limit private gatherings in the country to four people from December 18 to January 2 in an effort to curb transmission of the Chinese &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}