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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow-
South Koreans are famously nonchalant and know how to “keep calm and carry on” whenever there is an adversity. The South Korean approach to Covid-19 could not have been more different.
On 16 January, the South Korean biotech executive Chun Jong-yoon grasped the reality about Covid-19 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 world. There has been a general consensus in South Korea to trust in and respect the advice coming from doctors and scientists.
Meanwhile, the South Korean government assumed the virus would hit. Experience with the 2003 Sars epidemic proved useful. As a result, South Korea has been effective in controlling the nation’s mortality rate not through travel bans but instead through widespread rigorous quarantine measures and testing, now even exporting domestically produced test kits – such as the 51,000 diagnostic products sent this week to the United Arab Emirates. Most importantly, South Korea immediately began testing hundreds of thousands of asymptomatic people, including at drive-through centres. South Korea employed a central tracking app, Corona 100m, that publicly informs citizens of known cases within 100 metres of where they are. Surprisingly, a culture that has often rebelliously rejected authoritarianism has embraced intrusive measures.
Other nations would be wise to copy the South Korean model: on 29 February, 700 people tested positive in the primary South Korean outbreak city of Daegu. By 15 March, only 41 new cases were reported there. As expected, based on the continued lack of immunity in the population, on 18 March, the number of cases began rising again, with Seoul now bracing for the worst. Now, South Korea started to screen all people arriving at airports, Koreans included.
South Koreans have universal health care and are accustomed to paying half what Americans pay for similar medical procedures.
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow-
South Koreans are famously nonchalant and know how to “keep calm and carry on” whenever there is an adversity. The South Korean approach to Covid-19 could not have been more different.
On 16 January, the South Korean biotech executive Chun Jong-yoon grasped the reality about Covid-19 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 world. There has been a general consensus in South Korea to trust in and respect the advice coming from doctors and scientists.
Meanwhile, the South Korean government assumed the virus would hit. Experience with the 2003 Sars epidemic proved useful. As a result, South Korea has been effective in controlling the nation’s mortality rate not through travel bans but instead through widespread rigorous quarantine measures and testing, now even exporting domestically produced test kits – such as the 51,000 diagnostic products sent this week to the United Arab Emirates. Most importantly, South Korea immediately began testing hundreds of thousands of asymptomatic people, including at drive-through centres. South Korea employed a central tracking app, Corona 100m, that publicly informs citizens of known cases within 100 metres of where they are. Surprisingly, a culture that has often rebelliously rejected authoritarianism has embraced intrusive measures.
Other nations would be wise to copy the South Korean model: on 29 February, 700 people tested positive in the primary South Korean outbreak city of Daegu. By 15 March, only 41 new cases were reported there. As expected, based on the continued lack of immunity in the population, on 18 March, the number of cases began rising again, with Seoul now bracing for the worst. Now, South Korea started to screen all people arriving at airports, Koreans included.
South Koreans have universal health care and are accustomed to paying half what Americans pay for similar medical procedures.
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