South Korea will extend the suspension of Chinese citizens to South KoreaShort -term visa measures until February 28.

According to the Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean Central Disaster Security Countermeasures announced the above decision on Friday (January 27), explaining that although the situation in South Korea's epidemic prevention and control is better, it cannot completely exclude overseas input diagnosis after the Spring Festival.The possibility of a case caused the epidemic to spread again.

The Central Disaster Security Countermeasure Headquarters also said that if the situation improves before that, it is possible to restart the short -term visa issuance work.

The report quoted data from the Korean epidemic prevention department that there were 1,404 overseas input cases in the past two weeks, of which 890 cases from China.The Central Disaster Security Countermeasure Headquarters said that in the future, it will still pay close attention to the epidemic and make every effort to stabilize the domestic epidemic situation.

After the control of the epidemic in mainland China in December last year, the South Korean government tightened the prevention requirements for immigration from Chinese entry, including the suspension of Chinese citizens from the short -term visa to South Korea from January 2 to January to January until January until January until January to January until January to January until January to January until January to JanuaryOn the 31st, it was said that it could be postponed according to the situation.China also announced countermeasures earlier this month to suspend the issuance of South Korean citizens' short -term visas to China.