SeoulPodcast Briefing
COVID-19 Updates
Strict monitoring of entertainment facilities
More screenings and crackdowns
Two virus patients recover after plasma therapy
Foreign residents shut out of virus relief funds
Korea lifts ban on online liquor sales
SBS show apologizes for ‘inappropriate caption’ about coronavirus
Paris Baguette rises to occasion with bakery app
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Joe McPherson
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About This Episode
- COVID-19 Update
- 53 new cases – +6 from yesterday
- 10,384 confirmed cases total
- 200 deaths +8
- 6,776 recovered +82
- Seoul – 11
- Gyeonggi – 6
- Daegu – 9
- North Gyeongsang Province – 3
- +29 domestic
- +24 imported
- 14 at airport
- 20 are Korean nationals
- Social distancing until April 19th
- Todays’ numbers
- COVID-19 new cases plummet
- Strict monitoring of entertainment facilities
- Inspect from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. daily
- More screenings and crackdowns
- Bar employee tests virus positive after contact with infected K-pop singer
http://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200407000878&fbclid=IwAR0W5YIZS4X-OUwxOR1Qz_JRObEkmCcMsYMWHVs-MkP3awbqF7H-zMpiSZo - 36-year-old employee was in contact with Yoon Hak (37) of Supernova on March 26
- Two virus patients recover after plasma therapy: hospital
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200407000723 - Foreign residents shut out of virus relief funds
- Ansan to become first S. Korean city to provide disaster allowance to foreign residents
- Korea lifts ban on online liquor sales
- SBS show apologizes for ‘inappropriate caption’ about coronavirus
- Paris Baguette rises to occasion with bakery app
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