“We know enough about the virus now to be able to continue normal lives and still keep things under control,” he said.
Her research team’s July 1-3 survey of 1,028 adults aged 18 and older found that while 49 percent of the respondents said they believed another resurgence in the coming months was “likely,” they perceived the disease to be less threatening.After two consecutive summers of social distancing, partying has returned to parks and beaches.
“I made sure I was being responsible over two years, not going out and staying isolated. I don’t think I can take another year of that again,” said a Gimpo resident in her late 20s, who returned from a three-day trip to Jeju in late July. She said she’s gotten three shots before she was infected in April.
South Korea’s main Incheon Airport closed July with an estimated 1,738,706 passengers, marking a nearly sixfold rise from the same month last year’s 289,990. At Gimpo Airport, some 258,000 passengers flew domestically over the final weekend of July, comprising a year-on-year rise of 25 percent. Starting this month, however, the Health Ministry announced it was ending remote monitoring of older adults aged 60 and older and others who are clinically vulnerable while they are in home isolation from COVID-19. By default, patients of all ages and risk profiles isolate at home unless they develop serious symptoms.