Name: Lesson from South Korea on how to slow the COVID-19 spread | ABC News
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out to some promising signs out of Asia at the U.

Looks for ways to slow the spread of the Corona virus and avoid the crisis Italy is now facing.

South Korea, which saw its first confirmed case the same day as the United States, now appears to be flattening the curb after an initial spike.

TJ Holmes, he Widmore on how they are doing it.

Good morning, good morning, and this should be encouraging news for all of us to see a country like South Korea seem to be coming out of this thing.

After two months, something they're doing is working.

Well, we aren't We haven't and we might not even be capable just yet.

As Corona virus spreads across the West, new signs of hope in Asia and in particular South Korea, where there's been a dramatic turnaround.

The number of infections skyrocketed there from dozens to thousands in early March.

But now they're reporting the lowest number of new cases just 64 in a single day since their peak weeks ago, and they didn't lock down entire cities.

Experts say swift action from the very beginning was key that included social distancing, contact tracing widespread testing.

They made sure they and the ventilators they had enough personal protective equipment, make sure masks were being produced and mass produced.

So all those things that's the full sense of epidemic strategies they implemented very quickly.

S reported their first case of covert 19 on the same day, January 20th.

But South Korea then did something the U.

S has not implemented a system Tau electronically tracked people and the disease.

South Korea used different types of tracking measures to figure out where people were moving, whether they were violating social distancing measures.

So, for instance, if they're supposed be staying at home instead, they're out on the street or using public transportation.

They were able to figure that out fairly quickly.

Let's say you find out you have Corona virus.

The government then uses your cell phone and credit card data toe track where you've been, and then blast out and alert to the cell phones of people who may have crossed your path.

Our own Julie chose showing us what one of those alerts looks like on her phone.

The N 95 mask supply is limited, and the CDC advises people not to wear face masks unless they're sick or caring for someone who's ill.

But in South Korea, masks are widespread and encouraged by the government money.

But has lived in South Korea for three years, says she doesn't leave home without one master, actually quite easy toe get here from any of the convenience stores or any of the drug stores because people tend to wear them due to the air pollution occasionally anyways, so everyone's wearing masks.

People have been very, very visual with that and back to this idea of testing.

They're telling us not everybody needs to run out and get a test in South Korea.

Widespread testing, because what does that tell you where your problem areas are and how to target them were essentially in a case.

Where were a boxer in a ring with a blindfold on?

You can throw everything you want at it, but you can't see your target, and that's our problem.

We're behind an artist like they had the opposite reaction, how we reacted to it.

They were ready to roll and they put So they got those tests rolling immediately.

They saw their problem areas targeted them.

They knew where to send their mass and their ventilators and everything.

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