South Korea spends more than 50% budget on Contact Tracing to contain COVID-19

Having earned accolades for introducing innovative means such as drive-through/walk-in COVID-19 testing stations to tame the spread of Coronavirus in its country, South Korea also picked up clues from the past experience of checking MERS, EBOLA, and SARS viruses.

South Korean government used more than half of its budget on Contact Tracing – effective use of information technology for collecting mobile phone data for further tracing the movement of the confirmed cases or of the patients under suspicion.

According to Kwon Jun-wook, Deputy Director-General, Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), South Korea effected impressive integration between information technology (IT) and human resource. Read more...