South Korea will ease its outdoor mask mandate next week as COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations decline. Starting Monday, people will only be required to wear a mask outdoors in large gatherings, indoors and on public transportation.
Jeong Eun-kyeong, commissioner of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, said the weekslong decline in infections even with the easing of social distancing suggests that the country’s outbreak is stabilizing. She said health authorities concluded it was safe to relax the mask mandate because the risk of transmissions is much lower outdoors and other countries didn’t see a meaningful increase in infections after easing similar restrictions.
Jeong recommended that people still wear masks outdoors if they have symptoms like coughs or fever or are in crowded spaces like theme parks where it’s hard for them to maintain at least a meter distance with others., who takes office in May 10, raised concern that the move to ease the mask mandate could be premature.
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