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South Korea From 0:00 on October 1, overseas inbound personnel will no longer be required to fulfill their first day of entry to the new crown nucleic acid testing (PCR) obligations. As a result, all entry epidemic prevention measures in South Korea have been lifted.
This morning, Lee Ki-yi (sound), the first general coordinator of the South Korean Central Disaster Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, delivered an overseas entry system improvement plan containing the above content at the meeting of the New Coronavirus Central Disaster Safety Countermeasures Headquarters held in Seoul Building.
Coordinator Li explained: "From 0:00 on October 1, the PCR detection obligation within one day of entry will be lifted," "This is a decision taken into account that the confirmed rate of overseas inflows has decreased from 1.3% in August to 0.9% in September, and the recent low mortality rate of the dominant species Omickron variant BA.5."
"If there is another mutant strain with a high mortality rate in the future or other situations that need to strengthen the entry epidemic prevention efforts, we will consider resuming the PCR detection obligation."
Although the entry PCR detection obligation has been cancelled, South Korea's subsequent management of incoming users has not been cancelled.
Coordinator Li said: "If the incoming person has suspected symptoms of new crown within 3 days, he can go to the health station to receive nucleic acid test for for free."
In addition, from October 4, South Korea will lift the measures to prohibit offline visits to sanitary hospitals and sanitary facilities. If the visitor's self-test result is negative before visiting, he can visit relatives and friends at any time, but he must wear a mask during the visit and cannot take food. In addition, if the elderly living in the above facilities receive the fourth dose of the vaccine, they will no longer be restricted when going out or staying in the hospital.
The most happy thing about ushering in the news of "cancelling the inbound PCR testing obligation" is the aviation industry.
Aviation industry believes that South Korea no longer conducts epidemiological investigations on confirmed patients such as mobile routes. In addition, there are already many local confirmed patients in South Korea, so even if the new crown infection caused by overseas entry is cut off, it is meaningless. Therefore, the aviation industry has requested the government to cancel inbound PCR testing and other epidemic prevention measures on the grounds of "lack of effectiveness".
Based on today's benchmark, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in South Korea has reached 24.769101, which means half of South Korea's 50 million population has been confirmed.
South Korea ranks sixth in the world after the United States, India, Brazil , Brazil , France and Germany. Judging from the population comparison diagnosis rate, South Korea even overwhelms the United States, India, Brazil and Germany, and is at the same level as France.
According to Korean media reports, most Korean citizens have already possessed new crown antibodies through natural infection and vaccination. Recently, the National Health Research Institute of the Department of Disease Management conducted a large-scale seroepidemic survey on the whole of South Korea, and the results showed that the national antibody positive rate was 97.38%.
Aviation industry believes that South Korea's epidemic prevention measures have had a negative impact on travel demand. Previously, South Korea canceled its pre-entry PCR testing obligations, which suddenly increased the volume of overseas air tickets by 89%.
00 The Korean aviation industry is looking forward to the lifting of all inbound epidemic prevention measures this time, which can reawaken the vitality of South Korea's tourism industry and allow the aviation industry to "escape from death."
In addition, there is good news!
According to the South Korean and Chinese government departments, the number of flights to and from the two countries will increase from the current 27 flights per week (the round trip is counted as 1 flight) to 64 flights. Currently, there are 27 flights per week between China and South Korea (including 15 flights from Korean Airlines + 12 flights from Chinese Airlines).
South Korea and China will open 32 additional flights respectively. Korean airlines such as Korean Air and Asiana Airlines will fly additional routes after obtaining permission from Chinese local governments. It is expected that the relevant routes will be officially launched at the end of October. Currently, Korean Air operates routes to Shenyang, Tianjin and Guangzhou, and Asiana Airlines operates routes to Beijing, Changchun and Harbin. South Korean civil aviation sources said that the flight addition plan is being promoted except for the representative Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
In June this year, Beijing, China shortened the quarantine time for overseas incoming personnel from 21 days to 10 days, and the number of international flights has gradually increased. Against this background, the foreign ministers of South Korea and China held talks on , Qingdao in August to form a consensus on increasing flights and promoting personnel exchanges between the two countries.
