The government of South Korea is heightening Covid-related safety precautions in Seoul, including ordering the capital’s casinos to reduce their guest capacity to 20 percent.
The new measures mandate capacity restrictions at a variety of public locations according to their perceived degree of risk under a national pandemic-alert system that was raised recently with an increase in new infections in the metropolitan area exceeding an average of 100 per week.
Three casinos in Seoul and two in the nearby area of Incheon International Airport are affected.
The 20 percent limit applies also to pari-mutuel facilities in the metropolitan area, which, in contrast to the casinos, are open to Korean nationals.
By law, all but one of South Korea’s 20 casinos Kangwon Land in a remote mountainous region in the northwest are restricted to foreign passport holders.
