Asia Today: Seoul enforces limits on diners, shuts gyms

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ASIA TODAY: South Korea has reported 299 new cases of the coronavirus as officials placed limits on dining at restaurants and closed fitness centers and after-school academies in the greater capital area to slow the spread of the virus.

A health worker takes a nasal swab sample of a child to test for COVID-19 during a door to door test drive in Gauhati, India, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. India has the third-highest coronavirus caseload after the United States and Brazil, and the fourth-highest death toll in the world.

The 17th consecutive day of triple-digit increases brought the national caseload to 19,699, including 323 deaths. Thirty cases were also reported in the southeastern city of Daegu, the epicenter of the previous major outbreak in late February and March.Churches have emerged as a major source of infections in the Seoul region and elsewhere, with many of them failing to properly enforce masks and allowing worshippers to sing and eat together. Clusters have also popped up from restaurants, schools, nursing homes and apartment buildings.

For eight days starting Sunday, restaurants in the Seoul area are allowed to provide only deliveries and takeouts after 9 p.m. Franchised coffee shops like Starbucks will sell only takeout drinks and food.— The Australian state of Victoria has recorded 114 new COVID-19 cases and 11 more deaths. The fatalities bring the death toll from the virus in Victoria to 524 and the Australian total to 611.

 

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What is the over/under that the US will see the largest 'outbreak' of Covid cases right before the election? And the fakenews will push the fictional outbreak to the limits. What is the actual death count? 9000. You people who orchestrated this hoax need log prison terms.

My five-steps to Starbucks in Seoul this morning. 1) QR code tracker 2) temp check 3) sanitize 4) order 5) GTFO (no dining in allowed). One person in store at a time.

6ft & mask.

This just proves that shutdowns are horseshit.

First reported case of Coronavirus anybody? Late 1920s a respiratory infection found in poultry. Yeah its been with us for 90 years.

The AP reporter's inaccurate reporting degrades the AP's trust. This photo is not Korea, it is an Indian photo, and the content is not an accurate article.

Shit got real if South Korea closed them after-school academies.

야 사진이 한국이 아니라고 기자놈아

Puh-lease give us this data in per capita terms. Absolute numbers are not especially helpful.

boy libs not good for you. they all wear mask we been told they had it under control

Under 300 cases and they take immediate precautions. A good day in the US is 35,000 cases in a 24 hour period, and there's still no national strategy in place.

Virus be Virus’n AlexBerenson

What the hell happened in South Korea? I thought they were the primo example of how to take care of the virus seriously

I mean, as long as you're in South Korea it's fine.

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