Foreign minister calls policy 'unjust' and raised the possibility of countermeasures. FMTNews SouthKorea Japan Quarantine Covid19 Coronavirus
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha meets with Japanese Ambassador Koji Tomita.
It has barred entry to visitors from highly affected areas in South Korea, and ordered two weeks in quarantine for others. “The next two weeks are a critical time period that will determine whether or not we can put an end to Covid-19,” he said, referring to the illness caused by the virus, which first emerged in China late last year.
“We will explore necessary countermeasures based on principles of reciprocity,” it said in a statement. US Forces Korea reported a new case, for a total of seven, among soldiers, employees or people related to the roughly 28,500 US troops stationed in South Korea.
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