Tag: South Korea
The Republic of Korea, south of the 'hermit kingdom' North Korea, is one of the great powers in East Asia today and rules most of the Korean Peninsula, Manchuria. Capital city is Seoul, the fourth largest metropolitan economy in the world.
South Korea is relatively the most successful 'MAJOR' country in fighting COVID-19 because of its extensive measures and swift, decisive, expansive and well-organized mass testing to a large number of people. It is also remarkable that the country was able to control the virus at this rate even though it did not have to lock down entire cities or take some authoritarian measures. It also has a unique system wherein there were extensive efforts by their government and health care officials to isolate infected people and trace and quarantine their contacts.
South Korea learned the importance of preparedness the hard way. In 2015, a South Korean businessman came down with Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) after returning from a visit to three Middle Eastern countries. He was treated at three South Korean health facilities before he was diagnosed with MERS and isolated. By then, he had set off a chain of transmission that infected 186 and killed 36, including many patients hospitalized for other ailments, visitors, and hospital staff. Tracing, testing, and quarantining nearly 17,000 people quashed the outbreak after 2 months. The specter of a runaway epidemic alarmed the nation and dented the economy.
Despite of their success in battling the virus, they are still looking forward in learning more about the virus, like the rest of the world does.
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