The Economist South Korea keeps covid-19 at bay without a total lockdown

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From: The Economist today - Tuesday Mar 31, 2020 09:08 pm
The main reason that South Korea responded so quickly to the pandemic is its recent bad experience with MERS, another coronavirus, which killed 38 people in the country in 2015
   
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