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South Korea’s economy is expected to decline just 0.8 percent this year, the best rate according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forecast of member states published by The Wall Street Journal.
South Korea accelerated the rise in screening rates after the coronavirus outbreak, increased awareness-raising guidance for citizens, and the use of technology to track those infected and contacts through the GPS system, allowing officials to country health providers access individual smartphone data and get detailed information such as gender and age. And workplace. However, the process of tracking the individuals does not reveal the names.
“No country has adapted and contained the virus like South Korea,” says the head of the WHO’s global alert and response network, Dale Fischer.
And the “Covid 19” disease caused by the Corona virus spread in South Korea last February, after large infections related to a giant church in the city of Daegu were registered, as the government carried out a series of maneuvers and He pressured the population to wear masks and maintain social distancing, which fulfilled a commitment. Obvious for the Koreans.
South Korea never had to impose a complete lockdown, so restaurants and businesses were able to stay open, cushioning the blow to the economy.
The infection remained low for most of the summer, and health authorities stepped up testing again in August, when infections spiked again, targeting cases also linked to a large church, before getting the situation back under control.
One of the reasons for Korea’s success in dealing with the epidemic is the experience it had after the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2015.
After MERS, the government started training courses twice a year to simulate the rapid spread of viral diseases such as Ebola and influenza.
The wealthy Asian country has recorded 23,516 confirmed infections since the beginning of the epidemic, while the death toll was 399, according to statistics from Johns Hopkins University.
