What can other countries learn from South Korea’s COVID-19 responses?

Authors

  • Prakash Shahi Manavta, Research and Development Consultant, Nepal
  • Pasang Devi Tamang Manavta, Research and Development Consultant, Nepal
  • Yagya Bahadur Rokaya Karnali Academy of Health Science, Lecturer, Jumla, Nepal

Keywords:

COVID-19, Pandemic, Response, South Korea

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly growing and has been a major challenge for the health system globally. As of 27 April 2020, 213 countries around the world are struggling to combat the spreading the virus with 28,58,635 confirmed cases and 1,96,295 confirmed deaths. The first case in South Korea was identified on 20 Jan 2020 but the number of confirmed cases started to increase rapidly on end of February 2020 with total of 7,513 cases reported as of 10 March 2020, second country to have experience outbreak.

South Korea’s effort to control the virus combined many approaches, such as organized and no negligence in response, extensive screening, provision of improved information and the use of technology. This experience could provide some valuable lessons for countries on response to control the spread of pandemic disease like COVID-19 or any other outbreak situation in coming days or for those who are yet to face the COVID-19 outbreak so that they can control the disease spread in early phase.

In this article, we explore about the strategies used by South Korea to stifle the pandemic who were hit so bad by COVID-19 from the very early stage and discuss how countries can response the process to control the disease like COVID-19 or any other outbreak situations in future.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46405/ejms.v2i1.51

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Pasang Devi Tamang, Manavta, Research and Development Consultant, Nepal

University of Huddersfield, Postgraduate Researcher, Huddersfield, UK

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Published

2020-05-12

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Shahi, P., Tamang, P. D., & Rokaya, Y. B. (2020). What can other countries learn from South Korea’s COVID-19 responses?. Europasian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2(1), 90–93. Retrieved from https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/ejms/article/view/32781

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): EJMS | January - June Issue

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