“We’re not going back to life pre-COVID,” South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha tells ABC News. “We need to learn to live with this risk.'
were welcomed back to school with significant precautions, including temperature checks. Other grades will return in the following weeks.South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha spoke with ABC News about her country's reopening.their doors with guidance to socially distance. Professional sports, including baseball and soccer, have resumed playing in stadiums, but without fans.
MORE: South Korea's COVID precautions as students head back to school offers a glimpse of what's needed to re-open Kang said the country’s recent response to the MERS outbreak in 2015 was “not that laudable – there was lots of shortcoming,” but said that experience allowed South Korea to improve their disease control infrastructure. There were 185 MERS cases overall in the country when that outbreak occurred, of which 38 people died, according to WHO.
People eat lunch behind protective plastic barriers on the table between diners as South Koreans take measures to protect themselves against the spread of coronavirus in a cafeteria in Seoul, May 20, 2020.“That has really been put to the full test and successfully… this time,” she said, crediting vigorous “testing, tracing and treatment.”
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