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Mar 27, 2020 · Published March 27, 2020. South Korea saw its first confirmed COVID-19 case on January 20. The rate of infection gradually moved to 30 by February 17. Then on February 18, media reports surfaced that a 61-year-old Korean woman tested positive for the virus in Daegu, South Korea’s third-largest city. Dubbed “Patient 31,” this particular ...
Mar 25, 2021 · Beginning in early March, South Koreans were allowed to purchase 3–5 healthcare masks per week at a regulated price of 1,500 won (approximately USD 1.30) per mask (Kim, 2020 ). This is not to say that the South Korean mass masking practice during COVID-19 was a direct continuation of that in response to airborne pollutants during the previous ...
- Heewon Kim, Hyungsub Choi
- 2021
Jan 30, 2023 · South Korea on Monday scrapped a face mask mandate for most indoor public places in a major step to loosen COVID-19 rules, but many residents opted to keep wearing coverings due to lingering ...
May 2, 2022 · SEOUL, May 2 (Reuters) - South Korea has loosened rules requiring masks to be worn outdoors as COVID-19 cases drop, but many people are not taking them off yet due to pervasive Omicron infections ...
Mar 25, 2021 · How can we explain the divergence of social commitment to mass masking as public health measures in the global response to COVID-19? Rather than searching for deep-rooted cultural norms, this essay views the contemporary practice as a reenactment of multiple layers of accumulated socio-material conditions. This perspective will allow us to pursue a comparative study of the social history of ...
- Heewon Kim, Hyungsub Choi
- 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ). The first case in South Korea was announced on 20 January 2020. [3] The number of confirmed cases increased on 19 February by 20, and on 20 February by 58 [4] or ...
Apr 14, 2022 · South Korea will end virtually all Covid restrictions, except for a mask mandate. The F.D.A. authorizes the first coronavirus breath test. Pfizer says its booster strengthens the immune response ...
