Coronavirus South Korea: new infections and a new outbreak in Seoul



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A 29-year-old super untore bon vivant on a night of nightlife between bars and nightclubs would have infected 86 people: in ultra-tracked South Korea – the 100m Corona government app among the least privacy-friendly in the world – it was easy to trace Immediately to the disco-store, already on Saturday, when it was seen that in Seoul there was a new resurgence of infections. In just one day, health authorities in the South Korean capital registered 34 new cases: 4 above the symbolic safety threshold of 30 per day, who defined the situation as non-worrisome and virus controlled, and in any case a negative number after approximately one week of zero infections. This was enough for the mayor of Seoul to close clubs and discotheques until further notice. Meanwhile, the app, which maintains the identity of the infected anonymous but offers numerous confidential data about them, has extended the age, work and movements of the super gosher, making it recognizable: its good night would be dated May 1, in four or five gay clubs in the lively Itaewon district of the capital.

More than Phase 2 of stores and restaurants, to concern countries that believed they were in control of the Covid-19 epidemic and Phase 2 of infections. There is apprehension Also in China, where 17 new cases are officially registered: 5 of them are in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, from where the entire pandemic would have started, and due to the poor management of phase 2 in the area, has already left the leader of a local party headless. And the famous R0 index, which expresses the number of infected for each positive, again above 1 – guard level – also in Germany, where even the leader Angela Merkel had been the first to announce her containment, days ago. Three Lnder have exceeded the threshold of 50 infections per 10,000 inhabitants needed, in accordance with government regulations, in order to loosen containment measures. And then South Korea: After a week of zero infections, there were 86 cases over the weekend, 34 in the past 24 hours, almost all connected according to the territorial medicine network on the night of the 29-year-old party. .

The highest level of new infections since April 9. In total, as of noon today, local time, there are 86 cases of contagion related to an outbreak that developed among the bars and clubs of the Itaewon district in Seoul: of these 63 are customers in the nightclub area, while 23 others are their relatives or close contacts. The authorities of the capital of South Korea asked for the collaboration of all those who went to the nightclubs in the area between April 24 and May 6, tracked through the application: According to the data obtained, 5,517 people visited the area during that period, but only 2,405 of them were contacted for analysis and 3,112 more are not yet available.Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said.

The ability to contact thousands of users on such a large scale based on their geolocation on risky days does well the idea of ​​the omnipresence of control allowed in the lives of citizens by the application of the government, which is called Corona 100 m and for weeks at the center of great perplexities, precisely in this aspect: if, on the one hand, the massive monitoring strategy has not allowed to close everything, on the other, it has led to the easy criminalization of citizens individual (the anonymous application, but it is not difficult to recognize the positive aspects it reports, and on social media, the 29-year-old super store already has a first and last name). And also in full categories: in particular, for example, the Itaewon district, the heart of Seoul’s gay nightlife, and LGBT associations are already protesting: the app helps discrimination.

May 11, 2020 (change May 11, 2020 | 11:15 am)

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