South Korea may lift indoor mask mandate in January

The indoor mask mandate has been considered one of the last remaining measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 in South Korea. - Bloomberg

SEOUL (The Korea Herald/Asia News Network): South Korea’s pandemic response authorities proposed on Wednesday (Dec 7) to lift the nationwide indoor mask mandate as early as January next year, with plans for policy talks and forums beginning this month.

“As long as conditions (regarding the gravity of coronavirus) are met, (the eased mask rules) will come into effect at least in January, or March at the latest,” Dr Peck Kyong-ran, commissioner of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, said in a briefing in Seoul on Wednesday.