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South Korea reports fewer than 50 new COVID-19 cases for first time since Feb 29 peak
| Eyes of World |South Korea reported fewer than 50 new coronavirus cases on Monday (Apr 6) for the first time since its Feb 29 peak as daily infections in Asia's largest outbreak outside China continued to trend downward. South Korea has largely managed to...
South Korea’s Foreign Minister explains how the country contained COVID-19
| Eyes of World |“It doesn’t matter that my country is stabilizing and coming to grips with this,” says South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, explaining the approach her country has taken to the coronavirus outbreak at a virtual World Economic Forum COVID Task...
Lessons from South Korea: Transparency, rapid testing, no lockdowns
| Eyes of World |South Korea is the only country, so far, to flatten the curve of new coronavirus cases without resorting to extreme measures such as lockdowns. From new 909 cases recorded in a single day on February 29, new COVID-19 cases in South Korea dropped to 64...
Coronavirus: South Korea has more recovered patients than sick
| Eyes of World |outh Korean health officials said Saturday that for the first time since the country's first confirmed coronavirus case, there have been more recoveries than active cases. According to the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 4,881 cases...
What South Korea can teach Ireland about fighting Covid-19
| Eyes of World |Last week, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said Ireland was following the South Korean model for tackling the coronavirus outbreak. South Korea has been lauded internationally for managing to significantly slow the number of new cases of the virus, despite an...
Morocco Buys 100,000 COVID-19 Test Kits From South Korea
| Eyes of World |Osang Healthcare, a South Korean manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies, is set to provide 100,000 COVID-19 test kits to Morocco. The Moroccan government secured the deal with Osang on March 26. The kits detect the virus through DNA...
South Korea took rapid, intrusive measures against Covid-19 – and they worked
| Eyes of World |On 16 January, the South Korean biotech executive Chun Jong-yoon grasped the reality unfolding in China and directed his lab to work to stem the virus’s inevitable spread; within days, his team developed detection kits now in high demand around the...
This is how South Korea flattened its coronavirus curve
| Eyes of World |It took Thomas Streetman two hours to walk out his front door, take a cab to the public health center, get tested for the coronavirus and make it back to his apartment. He, who works as a marketing manager at a gaming company in Seoul, received his...
How South Korea Flattened the Curve
| Eyes of World |On Sunday, South Korea reported only 64 new cases, the fewest in nearly a month, even as infections in other countries continue to soar by the thousands daily, devastating health care systems and economies. Italy records several hundred deaths daily;...