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South Korea's Effort to Contain Covid-19

  • Isolate and quarantine by transformed public facilities and retreat centers owned by private corporations into temporary isolation wards to care for COVID-19 patients while preventing transmission within households, and to relieve hospitals of bed shortages
  • A government epidemiological investigation of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, at the origin of a large contagion cluster in the city of Daegu
  • Intense and compulsory contact tracing
  • Strict digital monitoring of quarantines, with fines and prison terms to deter violators
  • Entry bans limited to Chinese nationals with a passport issued from Hubei province and anyone who has visited Hubei province within the past 14 days
  • The government intervened in the production and market of masks and other PPE's to minimize the problems of shortage and hoarding as much as possible

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Updated 2020-07-24

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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Biomedical Sciences