The government plans to review the classification of COVID-19 under the Infectious Diseases Law once the seventh wave of the pandemic has been contained as part of efforts to reduce the burden on medical institutions, government sources said.
The government is also mulling whether to stop requiring public health centers and fever outpatient clinics to report infection tallies.
COVID-19 is not included among the diseases in the five-tier categorization system under the Infectious Diseases Law, but has been treated as equivalent to diseases in Category II -- the second most severe level.
