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- All right, here we go.
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(speaking in a foreign language)
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Wow, okay.
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I've got tears in my eyes.
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(upbeat rhythmic music)
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You drive-through, almost as if you're going
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to a McDonald's or a Starbucks.
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(speaking in a foreign language)
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I'm supposed to fill out this questionnaire
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so that the health officials ahead of us
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can identify whether or not I'm gonna need some testing.
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They are taking my temperature, from both ears actually.
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(speaking in a foreign language)
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They've just shown me that my body temperature
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is 36.6 degrees Celsius.
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(speaking in a foreign language)
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Ah.
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It's very ticklish and a bit abrupt.
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In a day or two, I will probably receive my results.
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I will probably get them through text messages.
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South Korea has seen cases rise more than 200-fold
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in just a few weeks.
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And a lot of that could be because testing
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is so widespread here.
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The government has set up more than 500
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coronavirus testing sites, processing more than
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210,000 people in a few weeks.
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Some critics say that if the government had,
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early on, closed its border with China
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and restricted travel from the epicenter
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of the country's epidemic, than maybe
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it wouldn't have needed to create so many testing sites,
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like this drive-through.
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- This meant that COVID-19 can be characterized
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as a pandemic.
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- [Andrew] The biggest takeaway is that
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the drive-through testing site is quick,
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efficient and minimizes the risk
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that potential patients might get the virus
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from those who already have it.
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The biggest limitation though, is you must be able to drive
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and have access to a car to use this facility.
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This probably means people who can't drive
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or people with disabilities will face difficulty
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in coming here and undertaking the test.