Novel coronavirus pneumonia was first cancelled in South Korea for the first time in history

Seoul, August 21, South Korea’s defense ministry said on the 21st that in order to actively cooperate with the national anti epidemic action, the South Korean Ministry of defense decided to cancel the annual reserve army training plan from September 1 and replace it with distance education. According to the report, this is the first time since the implementation of the reserve army system in South Korea in 1968. Distance education can be freely participated in according to individual wishes, but in order to improve the participation rate of education, the military will shorten the training time of next year for the participants. Affected by the epidemic situation, the Ministry of defense of South Korea postponed the reserve army training scheduled for March to September, and this time it was completely cancelled. The South Korean Defense Ministry said that the South Korean government recently raised the level of maintaining social distance to level II response, and the epidemic situation is very serious. The South Korean military will actively take measures to protect the health of citizens and overcome the epidemic. In addition, the Ministry of defense of the Republic of Korea temporarily banned all officers and soldiers from 19 to 31 from vacation, lodging out and visiting relatives. This is the military again banned officers and soldiers from taking leave three months after May.