Coronavirus: South Korea Shuts Down 2,100 Nightclubs And Bars

The government of South Korea has revealed that it has shut down 2100 night clubs in the city after it recorded an increase in the number of coronavirus cases after the lockdown was lifted a week ago.
South Korea Shuts Down 2,100 Nightclubs And Bars
South Korea Shuts Down 2,100 Nightclubs And Bars
The government revealed that the increase in numbers was because of the people who visited clubs and bars in the past week. Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said 16 more cases were confirmed in Seoul alone in the following hours. He said this brought the total number of infections linked to club-goers to 40 – 27 in Seoul, 12 in neighbouring Incheon and Gyeonggi, and one in the southern port city of Busan.
Coronavirus COVID-19Park said health workers have been attempting to contact some 1,940 people who were listed as visitors to the three Itaewon clubs and other venues nearby, but they have so far been able to reach only 637 of them.
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