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
- Todays’ numbers
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
- College student and her mother traveled to Jeju, violating the reommended quarantine
- 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
- Toys
- 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
- Toy and book lending services
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