South Korea, Singapore, and our situation

South Korea has a far worse situation than PH in January and February 2020.  But they acted swiftly and resolutely. They had 10,000 infections when we only had 1,000 in late March. But they managed without any nationwide lockdown like ours. No lockdown in Seoul or the entire country. They focused in Daegu where 65% of the infections were.

Speaking of proper health care, South Korea has an amazing 75% recovery rate compared to PH with a pathetic 8.5%. Probably worse is our very high mortality rate of 7.0% which double the 3.4 % of WHO. South Korea has less than 2.0% mortality rate like Thailand and Malaysia.
 
Singapore,  in spite of its very high infection of at 13,624, has a mortality rate of less than 0.1% at 12 fatalities. PH has about half (1/2) infections that of SG at 7,579  but with 502 fatalities. This is 40 times that of SG.

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Ricardo B. Ramos has been a freelance writer and columnist for the past 38 years since the early 1980s. He is the managing director of the Pilipinas Sandiwa Heritage Foundation Inc., which he founded in 1990.