South Korea Increasingly Concerned About Rising Daily COVID Infection Rate
The COVID issue continues to expand in South Korea:
South Korea’s new coronavirus cases exceeded 200 for a second straight day on Sunday due to cluster infections, with health authorities considering raising the social distancing scheme by a notch in the five-tier system.
The country added 208 more COVID-19 cases, including 176 local infections, raising the total caseload to 28,546, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
The daily new cases stayed in the triple digits for the eighth consecutive day. The cases exceeded 200 for the first time in 73 days with a mark of 205 on Saturday.
KDCA reported one additional death, raising the total to 493. The fatality rate came to 1.73 percent.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but once again context is important. 200+ daily coronavirus infections in a country of 51 million people is extremely low. For example the city of El Paso, Texas which is a coronavirus hotbed right now, had 981 new cases and 762 deaths. El Paso has a population of 682,000 people.
El Paso imported cases from Ciudad Juarez. Cases of a disease that is no longer more deadly than Influenza B is only alarming to the feeble-minded, the delusional, and those still wayching CNN instead of listening to their family doctor for medical advice.
Deaths per infected person are going down, have done markedly since May or June. The fact that governments are using the Sino Sinus Syphilis to take away liberties in spite of this ought to inform us.