Both suffered explosive outbreaks, but as infections and fatalities sword in Italy, South Korea suddenly began to turn the tide.

So I think we should be.

I'm very heightened, alert and ready, Professor Winstanley advises the government.

The government was a I were to make a very fast move to identify and isolate patients early mass testing, he says.

The secret weapon South Korea was able to provide this white espresso testing in the only our face off the outbreak of testing is much more important.

But later, maybe you just have to go into the mitigation measures.

South Korea had test kits in stock when the virus hit.

The response was immediate.

Watch how covert 19 spread in South Korea and Isley.

By early March, South Korea had farm or infections.

Then look what happened.

Today.

Italy has eight times as many infections.

Deaths there stand at 7500.

South Korea's at 126.

One of the longer lesson that we can see from Korea use having the available if test kits aren't widely available.

Fast, precious times lost.

South Korea did not go into total lock down.

Its manufacturers went into overdrive, producing test kits.

Straightaway.

Per capita testing is the highest in the world on mortality the lowest.

Why?

Because early detection minimizes spread on a symptomatic cases of court.

There's drive through testing and booth testing 600 centers nationwide, keeping people out of hospitals.

Tests take minutes.

Results by SMS.

In ours, you get inside each booth.

There's a U V lamp on negative pressure is disinfected unventilated after each patient diagnostic capability.

On this scale is South Korea's silver bullet enabling forensic digital contact tracing but aggressive tracings.

Intrusive laws enacted after the last respiratory epidemic murders six years ago enable the government to track an infected individuals digital footprints, mapping networks of transmission and closing them down.

But I think it is a balancing act.

Korean response was Ah!

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Uh, if you, ah, come carry to the vendors that you might think in UK but it was not as interesting as what they have done in China.

So I think you have to really ah, see the balance between how we can sacrifice in terms of, ah privacy when we see how we can really work for the common good off the public in Asia, there is just Maur acceptance off intrusive measures which in the liberal West might be deemed too stringent to stomach.

It's a cultural thing, but in South Korea it's also enshrined in law.

Public health trumps privacy, which you surrender in return for greater protection from a killer virus.

On this is a trade off which most people support personal data harvested from debit cards of mobile phones being crunched by government apse, which enable better, more detailed contact tracing the creation of travel histories and even alert users if they get too close to where an infected person's bean after SARS than MERS.

South Korea had a plan in place, as did Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, which have also kept infection and fatality rates low.

Unlike China's authoritarian response, these Asian democracies were transparent and their citizens readily adopted Corona courtesies and took limitations on liberty.

In a wartime like spirit of national resolve.

Approval ratings for President Moon Jae in hit new highs On Tuesday, Donald Trump called and asked for help, requesting the urgent provision of South Korean made test kits.