Jeju to File Suit Against Woman, Mother Infected with COVID-19

Mar 28, 2020

This is your SeoulPodcast briefing for March 28th, 2020. I’m Joe McPherson.

• COVID-19
  • Todays’ numbers
    • 146 new cases – up from 91 the day before
    • 9.478 confirmed cases total
    • 5 deaths. Total 144
    • 283 discharged. Total 4,811
      • Recovery rate tops 50%
    • Seoul – 18
    • Gyeonggi – 21
    • Daegu – 71
    • Imported – 24
      

Credit: KCDC

• Jeju to File Suit Against Woman, Mother Infected with COVID-19
  • College student and her mother traveled to Jeju, violating the reommended quarantine
    • Entered Korea March 15
    • Went to Jeju March 20
    • Came back to Seoul
      • Mother tested positive on March 24
  • They were infected–daughter even had symptoms before going to Jeju
  • 38 people are now in quarantine
    • All places they’ve stayed at have been disinfected
• Focus is now more on young people spreading the virus
  • PM is asking youth to not go clubbing (as if that would work)
• More Drive-thru culture evolving
  • Toy and book lending services
    • Toys 
      • Changwon, South Gwangsang Province
      • Jeonju
    • Books 
      • Gwangju and Wando County in South Gwangsang
  • Drive thru 회 in Yeosu and Pohang – Dosirak with rockfish and gray mullet with steamed abalone are popular
  • Source: http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/934529.html

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