South Korea will allow baseball fans to return to the stands from Sunday under a phased process planned by health authorities to bring back spectators as the COVID-19 epidemic recedes.
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Officials said spectators can begin attending professional soccer games matches from August 1. However, professional golf tournaments will continue without galleries at least until late August.
Teams initially will be allowed to sell tickets for only 10 per cent of the seats. Fans will be screened for fevers and required to sit apart and to wear masks. They will be banned from eating food and drinking beer, and discouraged from excessive shouting, singing and cheering.
South Korea's baseball and soccer leagues returned to action in May without fans in the stands.
The country's daily increase of confirmed coronavirus cases has again dropped below 50.
The Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it had confirmed 41 additional virus cases over the previous 24-hour period, bringing the national tally to 13,979 confirmed cases, with 298 deaths.
South Korea has been reporting roughly 20 to 60 new cases every day since it eased rigid social distancing rules in early May. I
Australian Associated Press
