SEOUL (Reuters): South Korean health authorities said on Wednesday (May 13) they had no immediate plans to reinstate strict social distancing rules despite a fresh coronavirus outbreak in the capital of Seoul.
Officials have scrambled to trace and test thousands of people over the past week after a cluster of new infections linked to nightclubs and bars in Seoul's Itaewon district raised fears of a second wave outbreak.
"For now, we will still monitor how the current transmissions go and review whether we should reconsider our distancing policy," Kim told a media briefing. Seoul city officials did introduce a new policy requiring people to wear protective face masks during peak hours on the subway from Wednesday. More than 22,000 people, including thousands geolocated by cellphone data, have been tested since the cluster was first revealed last week, Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon told a media briefing. Cellphone data was used to identify and locate thousands of them.
Investigators traced the man's movements using his cellphone data and determined that he worked at a school where five students and one instructor have since been confirmed to be infected.
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