'No mercy for people caught ignoring self-isolation rules' -

This is Joe McPherson with your SeoulPodcast briefing for March 27th, 2020.

COVID-19
- Todays’ numbers
  - 91 new cases – Down from 104 yesterday
  - 9.332 confirmed cases total
  - 139 deaths\
  - 4,528 recovered
  - Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi – 26
  - Daegu – 34
  - Gyeongsang Province – 9
- PM’s ultimatum: ‘No mercy for people caught ignoring self-isolation rules’
  - Long-term arrivals from U.S. and Europe 14 days
  - 40 people have violated
  - Risk deportation for violating
  - An increasing number of new cases have been coming through airports
  - How do they know they violated?
    - Required to install an app right when you get off the plane
- My plea to stay inside
  - Michael Hurt’s video
- COOL! Government is launching a 10-minute tracing program
  - Before, it took 24 hours to find out where a new case had traveled. Now it will only take 10 minutes.
Second child sex abuse ring – Leader may be 16 years old
- Both had been using the Telegram group chat
- 8,000-20,000 men members
- It’s connected to the other recently revealed ring, of whom Cho Ju-bin was an operator

‘No mercy for people caught ignoring self-isolation rules’