Workers impose a quarantine against the spread of bedbugs at Jeju International Airport on Nov. 13.
Korea has expedited the vaccination campaign for cattle and intensified quarantine measures to curb the spread of lumpy skin disease (LSD) amid deepening woes over its major dent to the beef industry.
Conflict between management and labor is growing over work-from-home policies.
Anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 will have to quarantine for five days, not seven, from early May.
Quarantine for people who test positive for Covid-19 will be reduced to five days from seven, the government announced Wednesday.
We must not forget that personal disease control to protect ourselves and those around us becomes more important when our personal freedom is less controlled by mass quarantine measures.
The Korean government deported a Chinese national who was arrested for escaping mandatory isolation after testing positive for Covid-19 upon arrival in the country earlier this month.
The indoor mask mandate could be lifted right after the New Year holidays, which end on Jan. 24.
Our foreign ministry must urge China to cancel its inappropriate measure and closely watch the movements of Chinese people before and after the Lunar New Year’s Day on Jan. 22 before it is too late.
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