K-quarantine

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Noun
  1. 1
    A term to describe the strategy used by Republic of Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic to limit the spread of the virus, including a quarantine system, outreach campaigns, testing, and contact tracing. South-Korea, neologism, uncountable

    "The Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has achieved great success in the early stage of the epidemic using the so-called K-quarantine measure, which enforces local quarantine around confirmed patients rather than implementing a global lockdown."

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"The Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has achieved great success in the early stage of the epidemic using the so-called K-quarantine measure, which enforces local quarantine around confirmed patients rather than implementing a global lockdown."

Etymology

From K- + quarantine, a term introduced in 2020.

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