nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200325-123326-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200325s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200325-123326-0 doi eng 342 23 Lee, Seokmin Author aut Fighting COVID 19 – Legal Powers and Risks: South Korea Lee, Seokmin Verfassungsblog 2020-03-25 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Republic of Korea (South Korea) was calculated to be one of the countries that are “heavily hit” by the spread of COVID-19 that sprung from Wuhan, China. According to the latest Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, as of March 23, South Korea has reported just over 8,900 cases and 111 deaths. Whereas many Western countries have reached ever higher numbers of infections, South Korea’s outbreak curve has been beaten back. From a one-day high of 909 new cases on February 29, South Korea has seen its daily case count rise by as few as 74 cases last Monday. And this Monday the number of new cases was 64. South Korea is seeing a "stabilizing trend", as Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha told the BBC recently. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Coronavirus COVID 19 South Korea Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/fighting-covid-19-legal-powers-and-risks-south-korea/ raw object