South Korea to drop mandatory 7-day quarantine for COVID patients from June

FILE PHOTO: People walk on a sunny spring day in Seoul, South Korea, May 3, 2022. REUTERS/ Heo Ran

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Thursday lowered its crisis level for COVID-19 and will from June no longer require infected people to quarantine for seven days, dropping one of the country's few remaining pandemic-related restrictions.

Health authorities will still recommend five days of self-isolation for infected people but it will not be mandatory.