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50% of coronavirus patients recovered in S. Korea
By Lee Sun-young Published : Mar 28, 2020 Korea Herald
As of midnight Saturday, the countrys accumulated number of cases stood at 9,478 -- 4,811 of whom had fully recovered, with 4,523 still sick and 144 dead. The recovery rate was 50.8 percent and fatality rate 1.52 percent.
Now, there are more people who have recovered than are sick, said Yoon Tae-ho, director-general for public health policy at the Ministry of Health and Welfare, said in a briefing.
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The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life
The president was aware of the danger from the coronavirus but a lack of leadership has created an emergency of epic proportions
by Ed Pilkington and Tom McCarthy in New York Mar 28
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/28/trump-coronavirus-politics-us-health-disaster
When the definitive history of the coronavirus pandemic is written, the date 20 January 2020 is certain to feature prominently. It was on that day that a 35-year-old man in Washington state, recently returned from visiting family in Wuhan in China, became the first person in the US to be diagnosed with the virus.
On the very same day, 5,000 miles away in Asia, the first confirmed case of Covid-19 was reported in South Korea. The confluence was striking, but there the similarities ended.
In the two months since that fateful day, the responses to coronavirus displayed by the US and South Korea have been polar opposites.