South Korea said on Friday it will lift an outdoor face mask mandate next week in the country's latest step to ease COVID-19 restrictions, despite opposition from the incoming government which labelled the decision 'premature'.
A woman wearing a mask, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, adjusts her makeup at a Han river park in Seoul, South Korea, April 26, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-JiSEOUL, April 29 - South Korea said on Friday it will lift an outdoor face mask mandate next week in the country's latest step to ease COVID-19 restrictions, despite opposition from the incoming government which labelled the decision "premature".
People are still required to wear masks at events with 50 attendants or more, such as at rallies, concerts and sports stadiums, Kim said.South Korea reported 50,568 new coronavirus cases on Friday, well down from the peak of more than 620,000 a day in mid-March. "The transition team agrees with pushing for the lifting of mask-wearing mandate as part of efforts to return to normal life, but we have stressed multiple times that removing the outdoor mask mandate at this point would be premature," a spokesperson for Yoon's team, Hong Kyung-hee, told a briefing.
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