Seoul City To Start 'Drive-Through' COVID-19 Testing Tuesday

TBS ^ | Today | Reporter Sehhyeong Kim

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The Seoul city government says it will open tomorrow four "drive-through" coronavirus testing facilities in the capital.

The makeshift clinics will be set up in the Eunpyeong, Seocho, Songpa and Gangseo districts.

Those with COVID-19-like symptoms will be able to get tested for the disease without getting out of their cars.

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Examinees will be notified of test results via text message.

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http://m.tbs.seoul.kr/efm/newsView.do?typ_800=O&idx_800=2386982&seq_800=10379947

[Stentor]

Can I have fries with that, please. And an order of Kimchi

[Mariner]

They’ve been doing this in Deagu for over a week.

Meanwhile, clinicians in the US cannot test their patients at will. They don’t have the kits.

[Mariner]

Even in Toronto. Drive thrus.

But US doctors cannot test at will.

[cba123]

To be fair, I think a lot of the testing kits arrived this weekend.

[Mariner]

I know CA has 10,000 kits, but they are the old variety which require special CDC equipment to read...at only 12 locations in the entire US.

[proust]

That’s a pretty slick process they have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us-432apKFw

[cba123]

I think the new kits are just now, starting to be used, across the country.

This week.

Now.

[cba123]

I notice they have a facemask unlike any others I have seen.

But lots of Koreans seem to be using that style mask.

[Drago]

Been doing “drive-thru” for a week or 2 outside of Seoul (Daegu):

https://nypost.com/2020/02/27/south-korea-launches-drive-thru-coronavirus-testing-facilities/

[Bob434]

you wonder what all these tests are doing to folks who don’t have the virus- will the tests give them the virus? Just going to a place where virus infected people have been, where they have been sneezing, hacking etc- would increase the risk of getting the virus i would think- also coming off a plane, you get tested by some device that was used on many other people in front of you- Do they use completely sanitary steps to do the testing?

[wideminded]

Just heard that post offices in South Korea are going to start selling masks. They will sell for about $1 and customers will be limited to 5 per day.

South Korea has some very serious localized outbreaks, but they seem to be very much on top of the situation. For instance they already tested over 200,000 members of the church where the major outbreak occurred.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Last night I watched a documentary from a Canadian company, using mostly Australian source material, on the situation at Wuhan. It was like watching an episode of The Walking Dead when they were walking through the deserted streets of Atlanta:

The Passionate Eye: Coronavirus

PS: I download everything I watch from private sites so I have no idea how you would watch this via Netflix, your local cable service, etc. But I did find a Youtube documentary that looks like it is using the same source material as the CBC program:

4 Corners: Coronavirus

[Does so]

Church had a Chinese mole?

[momincombatboots]

O my. Maybe running highly complex lab tests for decades has made me overly skeptic. Nah.. i go to offices and test sites ourltside of the lab and i will state this. No one in my family is ever tested outside a fully accredited lab with highly specialized training.

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