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FILE PHOTO: Quarantine workers spray disinfectants in a concert hall which is going to reopen next week, amid the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 2020. Yonhap/via REUTERS
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea will indefinitely extend intensive prevention and sanitation guidelines until the daily new cases of the new coronavirus drops to single digits, Health Minister Park Neung-hoo said on Friday.
The announcement comes as new cases have persisted in the mid-double digits daily, after series of new clusters in the capital Seoul area.
Reporting by Sangmi Cha; Editing by Himani Sarkar
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