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Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series: Response to COVID-19 in Japan and Korea

Posted by: Tynesha Hubbard

So far, Japan and South Korea’s  COVID-19 infection and mortality rates are relatively low despite neither country having been locked down. Both countries had the first cases of infection very early, in mid-January. The measures the two countries took appear different. South Korea was widely regarded as a model country in combating the pandemic. South …