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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.S Korea sees record virus jump as thousands take college exam
By KIM TONG-HYUNG SEOUL, South Korea©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Tom Doley
When model countries like Australia, Singapore and Korea have surge in cases, you just realise how effective limiting the COVID tests are.
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Simian Lane
How do you know? Are you making an assumption?
buchailldana
but here in Japan, it's nearly eliminated.
englisc aspyrgend
The jump in the number of cases is a less interesting part of the piece as compared to the enlightening insight in to the education based psychological torture they inflict on their young!
Academic education is useful and important but not at the exclusion of everything else. You also have to develop a rounded and balanced person. Not everyone is a natural academic, but nonetheless a bright, intelligent and capable person.
noriahojanen
I think it was premature, for the Korean government had then no reason or scientific grounds to rush to lift restrictions towards "with corona" life. It's not a competition.
Sven Asai
Isn’t that already a big fail if they all are such stupid to press themselves into crowded exam rooms, while they should know as college students that the infections in their country are rising and higher than ever before? They (and the teachers) are idiots right from the start, whatever those pupils might score high in the paper tests.
cleo
The exam room in the picture doesn't look all that crowded, all the desks are spaced out, they're all wearing masks and since they're taking a test there won't be much chatting going on.
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kennyG
lol. but you never realize what is here to be realized.
Hito Bito
Wonder what vaccine the Koreans have been using?
Just read in Nature Communications the latest study from Israel, the country with the most advanced "booster" program in the world, reporting that six months after becoming "fully vaccinated" with two Pfizer shots, everyone, regardless of age, sees immunity plunge.
Six months after becoming "fully vaccinated", and you have a 51% increased chance of contracting the virus, according to the study conducted by team of researchers with data provided by Maccabi Health Services.
And countries like Japan plan on "boosting" their population starting at...8 months? I see a new "wave" coming!
Little wonder of these reports of "breakouts" then?
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Hito Bito
You are confusing two things here. Fully vaccinated and boosters. The study you cite has nothing to do with boosters.
Also, Israel has a poor vaccination rate with only 62% of the population fully vaccinated compared with 76% in Japan. Higher vaccination rates slow the spread of the virus for the whole country.