On December 12, South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced that it would use all available resources to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in this country.
Out of 1,030 new COVID-19 cases reported on the morning of December 13, there were 1,002 infections in the community, the highest level since South Korea, the Korea Agency for Disease Control and Prevention said. The first case was detected in January 2020. According to the Korean government, in the current complicated epidemic situation, the country has no choice but to raise the level of social gap to the highest level (level 3) to prevent outbreaks.
Many Koreans have expressed concern over the dangerous developments of the epidemic. South Korean President Moon Jae-in has called the COVID-19 epidemic in the country a “state of emergency” and instructed the authorities to mobilize all resources to prevent the pandemic.
President Moon Jae-in affirmed that the Korean government will increase its capacity to track cases by mobilizing military forces, the police and even administrative officials. He emphasized that finding infected people is the most important step to quickly overcome the current crisis.
The Korean government plans to set up temporary testing centers in 150 densely populated locations. In addition, the country will increase the number of fast testing facilities for SARS-CoV-2 virus in the streets.
Korea has been successful in tracing new cases when during the summer, the infection rate was always kept under 50 cases / day.