(Bloomberg) – In the month of May, when an epidemic crown quickly hit their version of the Navy Seals wild nightclubs in the South Korean capital Seoul, health officials – the elite teams of epidemiologists, database specialists and technicians laboratory. One of the old school, leather shoes gave investigations, the virus had jumped out of a nightclub visitors, a student, a taxi driver and then scary for a warehouse worker who has worked with the other 4,000. Thousands of employees, their families and contacts were approached and 9,000 persons were then tested. Two weeks after the field was largely extinguished flareup and infections in 152 circumcised Read more: What South Korea nightclub Crown outbreak can teach other countries how the work of these reopen called Immediate Response Team offers a look at how South Korea – once the second most affected by the crown – has largely suppress the spread without the lockdowns succeeded in life have derailed the world. At a time when cities from Los Angeles to Melbourne to Tokyo struggling with springs, South Korea on textbooks offers one of the most successful projects even for a disease includes, that’s more than 600,000 deaths worldwide . The balance of the new cases in the Asian country – that the audit strategy Blitz led the way – never, but the daily number of new cases from 30 to 60 for two months after peaking at more than 800 in February largely fallen to zero hand. Compare that to the county of Los Angeles, which has only 2,014 cases on Thursday. the strategy undertaken by South Korea implemented a harsh contrast to the arrests in some parts of China or blocking Tourism New Zealand in an attempt to completely eradicate the virus. The Asian nation targets carefully dangerous hotspots and most people simply allows life without obstacles and leadership to guide companies. “We get in, if there is a possibility of large-scale transmission and our job is to find the links between the cases and prevent a flare,” said Kwon Donghyok, deputy scientific director at the country’s Centers for Control and Disease Prevention, supervised the survey teams. “The search for potential contacts and investigate the cause of the infection is the backbone of what we do.” The country now has one of the lowest rates for infections of unknown aetiology, about 8%, compared with over 50% of springs to other countries with the most recent viruses. Flareups fell from a weekly average of about a dozen six this week. South Korea has a successful strategy because Western countries have learned something from the bitter experiences of the past, not the lead. Most of its more than 14,000 cases and nearly 300 deaths are based on a religious champagne in February and March in flareup. Since then the processes developed after the 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome epidemic in the country helped prevent a second wave of the new coronavirus. South Korea has about 100 researchers epidemiology CDC, compared to only two during the MERS outbreak. During a wide as possible epidemic, some taken into account for the immediate Response Team, which is usually about six to eight members. On any given day, officials investigating potential flareups in places other than group meetings church clubs for badminton or exotic cars. Infections in low-risk assets are initially treated by local health officials, while an immediate response team to be named for the high-risk positions. Other countries have managed to trace contacts and expand exam successfully with countries like Taiwan and Germany to curb the virus projection. But some have more difficulty had recently. Infections compensated in Melbourne this month to a record because his efforts were not suitable designed for the migrant population. India has had some successes in the following contacts and cuts an outbreak in the slums of Mumbai Dharavi, but the width of the test of a country with 1.3 billion people has to replicate as heavy that. “The main strength of South Korea’s treatment of the crown pandemic is its ability to provide a thorough epidemiological investigation to be done in each patient,” said Jung Ki-suck, a former director of the CDC and now a professor at Hallym University Medical Center, who performed on public health officials detailed the persecution. “The epidemiology survey has never been so important, because it reduces the size of the outbreaks and also new cases occur block.” The study detailed and in-depth strategy paid if the investigators were able to track the epidemic field after a hip nightlife flare-up in follow Itaewon neighborhood said Kwon, who examined the MERS outbreak and was in Rio de Janeiro a possible virus outbreak Zika study during the 2016 Olympic Games Read more: mapping the coronavirus epidemic spreading across the United States and the world from the CDC found that a nightclub visitor who was a mentor, spread the virus to one of his students. The student, who was not aware of the infection, one used for transferring coin karaoke room singing the virus to a taxi driver in an adjacent room. The taxi driver also worked as a part-time photographer and took pictures of a birthday party at a restaurant buffet in the area where the distribution center. By monitoring footage and cell phone records, contacted investigators who had all been in the restaurant at the time of the birthday party. Among those who were infected in the restaurant, was a woman who had worked for a day in the field. some of the tactics in South Korea, to be sure, which has a population of about 51 million, could be difficult to replicate in countries vastly populated developing. And the Asian country has benefited from a technology that may be unacceptable to the citizens of many western countries monitoring. potential contacts in South Korea Tracing involved hundreds of hours of surveillance camera footage and going through the phone’s operations and credit card to check. The so-called CCTV are ubiquitous in South Korea, as almost all the roads and jobs they have. “Other countries simply lack the capacity, this in-depth patient exams to do,” said Young, the former director of the CDC. “We had a lower absolute number of cases compared to other nations, but more importantly, the social norm, where people agree with their privacy is of the general public, allows injured thorough investigation, which is just unimaginable in Western countries. “South Korea said that in cases, some expected peaks among the workers build Iraq virus hit return and more cases of a Russian ship in one of its ports. While most cases imported from the outside, the cadres of the South Korean viruses are brought knows his thin profits, and the importance of vigilance. Many countries, including the financial capital of Asia, Hong Kong have successfully repelled the virus for months, only to see a sudden return. “Any mass infections that we have seen, in the blink of an eye has happened,” said Kwon. “If we miss a bit ‘of a connection or let a small detail to spend there will certainly experience a return of cases.” copyright Image of SeongJoon Cho Bloomberg / Getty Images
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