the Seoul city Government has announced emergency closure of all Nightclubs and bars in the city, after sick with coronavirus, a man went to three such establishments and was in contact with several thousand people. South Korea face a second wave COVID-19 – now identified 30 new infected. Now trying to find all the visitors of the clubs, but the situation is complicated by the fact that they are gay – not everyone wants to advertise their presence.
Go out, socialize and have fun, called on residents of South Korea after the government decided to remove some quarantine restrictions. The Republic of Korea has become a real role model for many countries in the world. She, unlike other States, managed in the early stages to suppress the proliferation of dangerous infections and to prevent the collapse of its economy.
However, the trouble came from where it wasn’t expecting. Saturday, may 9, at the fourth day of the “new stage” in the Republic, the mayor of Seoul has ordered to close all the capital’s bars and Nightclubs for an indefinite period after the discovery of yet another hotbed of dangerous diseases.
They became Itaewon, the popular nightlife district of Seoul. According to the South Korean authorities, they have re-started the spread of the virus.
this became known after Wednesday, may 6, a test for detecting Covid-19 a 29-year-old man who on may 2 visited three Nightclubs in the area, showed a positive result. According to conservative estimates in entertainment establishments could be from 5 to 7 thousand people.
city Hall urged everyone who visited the clubs in Itaewon in early may, pass a test for coronavirus and not to leave the house. However, there is another problem: institutions visited 29-year-old Korean man are gay clubs, so not all people want to advertise the fact of his stay there.
Authorities are counting on that to track visitors, which could get manage with the help of mobile data, credit card data, and video surveillance.
Doctors fear that the 29-year-old Korean could be the so-called “superastronomical” – that is, those from whom the infection is passed to others much easier and faster.
the man explained that he did not even know that is sick with coronavirus, because until 2 may have had no symptoms and he felt well.
Now the government and doctors in South Korea fear the emergence of the second wave of the disease. “Carelessness can lead to an explosion of infection,” – said the mayor of Seoul Park Won.
the fact that the second wave is inevitable reported The New York Times Dream Yang Rey, senior epidemiology specialist in the Central headquarters of the government in dealing with natural disasters. However, she noted that in South Korea there is a constant systemEMA monitoring and screening, and that is why the country has every reason to prevent the rapid spread of dangerous diseases.
song Yang Rey also added that experts hope to slow the spread of the virus and to reduce it to a small “sporadic outbreaks”. Sleep young Rei hoped that this situation will not affect the daily lives of citizens.
it is Noteworthy that some of the quarantine restrictions in South Korea has always been voluntary. This meant that people continued to go out and even visit the party.
This behavior has angered the mayor of Seoul. “I would ask young people to refrain from reckless behavior that can lead our society to a crisis,” he said in his speech on April 13.
However, South Korean officials have not adopted large-scale restrictive measures, as the number of cases remained low. Now, when it increases again the government may have to introduce some restrictions.
Governor of Gyeonggi province which surrounds Seoul, following the example of the mayor of Seoul, also made the decision to close for two weeks over 5 7000 entertainment venues.
“Infectious diseases cluster, who recently showed up in entertainment establishments, showed that even during the phase of stabilization of such a situation can arise again at any time and in any place, in a confined and crowded space, said Kim moon-soo. – We must never relax our vigilance regarding the prevention of epidemics”.
According to the Johns Hopkins University, all in the territory of the Asian Republic recorded nearly 11 thousand cases of infection COVID-19, 258 infections died 9 670 patients have recovered.
