South Korea Extends Social Distancing Measures

South Korea is extending its current measures on social distancing for at least another two weeks as it struggles to slow coronavirus infections in the greater capital area. The measures include clamping down on private social gatherings of five or more people nationwide and prohibiting indoor dining at restaurants and bars in the Seoul metropolitan area after 10 p.m. Authorities will inspect shopping malls, restaurants, public baths and private tutoring academies in the capital area over the next two weeks. While South Korea has wiggled out of its worst wave of the virus, it has still been seeing 300 to 400 new cases a day since mid-January.