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Testing Policy in South Korea

As more visitors from China began testing positive for Covid-19, The Korea Center for Disease Control & Prevention (KCDC) rapidly increased the number of local screening centers around January 28. Following this expansion, Medical staff working on a local and national level were able to conduct 15,000 laboratory tests per day as of February 28, 2020. The Korean government covers the cost for testing those with suspected symptoms or in recent contact with confirmed cases; anyone else can pay 150,000 KRW (~125 USD) to get tested, with fees reimbursable from the nation's single-payer health care system. The Ministry of Health and Welfare provided a regularly updated list of locations which offered testing which now offers information about the form of testing available. Testing can notably come in the form of walk through or drive through.

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Updated 2020-07-22

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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Biomedical Sciences