Will Americans be the Next Nationality to Face Mandatory 14-Day Quarantine in South Korea?
The articles blaming foreigners for spreading coronavirus in South Korea has expanded to include the United States now:
As of Monday, the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. surpassed 33,400, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the third largest in the world after China and Italy.
“As the number of virus patients increases quickly in the United States, health authorities should conduct virus tests on all arrivals from North America,” said Kim Woo-joo, a professor of infectious medicine at Korea University Guro Hospital.
Experts warned that the number of imported cases involving U.S. travelers could increase. Of the 14 new imported cases reported on Monday, eight of them were from the United States.
Doctors said that arrivals from the United States should also be quarantined for two weeks even if they test negative for the virus because of the virus’ incubation period and possible asymptomatic carriers.
Yonhap
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90% of the arrivals who face tests and quarantine are South Korean nationals. How do you figure this is an anti foreigners conspiracy? 🙄
Because even though it is the case that 90% are S. Korean nationals, the Yonhap article specifically says “US travellers” and the article leads off by listing numbers of Americans diagnosed, and comparing them to numbers in China and Italy. Thus, even though in the rest of the article the quote doctors talking about “arrivals,” the overall context provided and the little shift/innuendo about “US travellers” both allows and encourages readers to rev up their anti-foreign-devil feelings. Oh, never mind. Just saw the emoji.
I don’t see any ‘innuendo” when the said article specifically mentions:
> “Considering that more than half of arrivals from Europe and the United States are South Korean nationals, most of them will be able to put themselves in self-quarantine here.”