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Seoul: The Seoul city government said on Sunday that it will take legal action against a Protestant church for breaking the South Korean capital’s administrative order not to hold mass gatherings to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The Sarang Jeil Church conducted a service for the second consecutive Sunday. It had been banned by the city government from hosting mass events after it violated precautionary measures for containing COVID-19 during its service on March 22, reports Yonhap News Agency.
As part of the South Korean government’s social distancing drive, churches are advised to check the temperatures of their followers and to maintain a distance of 2 metres during services, among other quarantine measures.
Sarang Jeil Church flouted those guidelines last month and ignored the government’s order against offline services on Sunday. But a church official explained that only pre-registered followers were allowed to attend the service, and they were kept at least 1 metre apart from one another.
The government’s initial social distancing drive had been scheduled to end Sunday, but it extended the campaign by two more weeks on Saturday, said the report.
President Moon Jae-in took to social media to plead with religious groups to comply with social distancing recommendations.
South Korea continued to see a decline in new coronavirus cases on Sunday, but Seoul and the surrounding areas reported a continued rise in virus infections due to cluster transmission and imported cases. (IANS)

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