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Korea will reclassify COVID-19 to the same category as the seasonal flu starting Aug. 31, health authorities said Wednesday. COVID-19 will go down from class 2 to class 4, the lowest infectious disease category which comprises diseases such as the seasonal flu, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, gonorrhoea and syphilis, that the government considers manageable with stability. The decision was based on the declining number .
The government s newly enforced border controls on Chinese visitors amid a COVID-19 resurgence in China are drawing mixed responses, since the new measurers come as Korea s tourism industry has been waiting for the return of tourists from the world s most-populous country. Chinese tourists accounted for the largest proportion of inbound travelers to Korea before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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We present computational modeling of COVID-19 transmission and intervention strategies including vaccination and social-distancing. Furthermore, epidemiological distributions of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), including the intervals from symptom onset to diagnosis, reporting, or death, are important for developing effective disease-control strategies. COVID-19 case data from a national database maintained by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) and the Central Disease Control Headquarters were analysed.