medical system here is stable. stable enough for the decision friday that they were going to ease some of those social distancing restrictions, just one really. there's a curfew on restaurants and entertainment venues of 9 p.m. that's being pushed back but the prime minister says it is a nod to those small businesses that are really struggling to keep their heads above water. and we're also seeing a significant thing here, which is the qr code system, which was really the pinning -- underpinning that the track and trace system here in south korea which worked so well for so many months. they've now dismantled that so they're not going to need that. they realize you cannot contact trace when you have over 100,000 new cases a day. now it's a very contrasting view in hong kong though. they are still sticking to their zero covid strategy. those 6,000 cases, the last daily case to be reported and