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.
- Todays’ numbers
- 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