국내 코로나 97명 확진, 거리두기 5단계... 자영업자들에게 희소식?<br /><br />97 is the daily Covid-19 tally in South Korea today... with most of them in the densely populated greater capital area.<br />Authorities here have unveiled a new virus prevention scheme - more meticulous than the previous three-tiered system, the five-stage scheme aims to better reflect the situation on the ground.<br />Kim Yeon-seung has the details.<br />The South Korean government on Sunday announced its new five-stage social distancing measures.<br />"We are dividing the social distancing rules further... from three levels into five... to better reflect reality. We are also redesigning our disease prevention measures in a tailored fashion,... to make them more effective."<br />This new system will take effect from Saturday, November 7th.<br />The government will use the weekly average number of daily COVID-19 cases to decide which of these social distancing levels will apply.<br />The revision provides more detailed and clear rules for areas such as schools, gatherings, sports and religion.<br />The new measures also intend to provide some relief to local businesses... by making guidelines more suitable.<br />Restaurants and cafes have similar measures as before, but PC rooms, which struggled to survive under the old measures, have been reclassified.<br />"For PC rooms, if there's a limit to selling food or stuff like that, it gets difficult for us to even pay rent."<br />Under the revised rules, PC rooms can operate almost fully even under level 2.<br />"If social distancing measures are elevated to level 2, customers in PC rooms or similar facilities should sit at least one seat apart and shouldn't eat or drink indoors.<br />But most PC rooms aren’t really affected by these restrictions as they already have barriers between seats, which means customers can sit next to each other."<br />Wedding halls, funeral homes, movie theaters, and cram schools also used to be categorized as high-risk but will now have the same leeway as PC rooms.<br />Kim Yeon-seung, Arirang News<br />
