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South Korean gov't apologizes over virus-stricken destroyer

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180481 infections and 2059 deaths means korean average is 0.011%

math correct?

Math not correct. You bad at math.

2059 is 1.1% of 180,481, not 0.011%.

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Tokyo has more than 1000 infectiosn per day in recent weeks and carrys on regardless with the lympic games, makes one wonder doesnt it.

Games are a joke or the virus is a joke you can choose one or the other or both !!

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Bjorn Tomention

Spell check, please.

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In a separate address, Defense Minister Suh Wook said he “feels heavy responsibility for (the outbreak) and offers words of sincere apology” to the sailors, their families and the public.

(...) None of the destroyer’s crew had been vaccinated because they left South Korea in early February, before the start of the country’s vaccination campaign.

He didn't have to apologize for the outbreak itself. Maybe the government is responsible for the slow rollout for active servicemen.

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credit to ROK for apologizing.

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virus-stricken destroyer

virus-stricken destroyer, LOL. I guarantee the destroyer is just fine. And if any of the sailors who got infected with the virus had any actual health problems from it, there is no doubt we would have heard that. Have we?

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virus-stricken destroyer, LOL. I guarantee the destroyer is just fine. And if any of the sailors who got infected with the virus had any actual health problems from it, there is no doubt we would have heard that. Have we?

Apparently, based on reports in other media outlets, 16 of the ship's crew are hospitalized in an undisclosed country in the region.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/19/crew-evacuated-after-major-covid-outbreak-on-korean-warship

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