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Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic: onsite mass workplace testing for COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is causing tremendous damage globally. The Republic of Korea (ROK), a highly export-dependent nation, is a leader in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and coping well with the disaster. Like the drive-through COVID-19 testing, which refl...

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Autores principales: Seo, Eunhye, Mun, Eunchan, Kim, Wonsool, Lee, Changhwan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Occupational & Environmental Medicine 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7406704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32802338
http://dx.doi.org/10.35371/aoem.2020.32.e22
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description The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is causing tremendous damage globally. The Republic of Korea (ROK), a highly export-dependent nation, is a leader in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and coping well with the disaster. Like the drive-through COVID-19 testing, which reflects the brilliant flexibility of the Korean medical system, onsite mass workplace testing for COVID-19, which our hospital has been performing over the past few months, is a unique and valuable countermeasure. We believe it is time that the current health examination system for workers in the ROK considered the risk of transmissible diseases.
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spelling pubmed-74067042020-08-13 Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic: onsite mass workplace testing for COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea Seo, Eunhye Mun, Eunchan Kim, Wonsool Lee, Changhwan Ann Occup Environ Med Short Communication The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is causing tremendous damage globally. The Republic of Korea (ROK), a highly export-dependent nation, is a leader in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and coping well with the disaster. Like the drive-through COVID-19 testing, which reflects the brilliant flexibility of the Korean medical system, onsite mass workplace testing for COVID-19, which our hospital has been performing over the past few months, is a unique and valuable countermeasure. We believe it is time that the current health examination system for workers in the ROK considered the risk of transmissible diseases. Korean Society of Occupational & Environmental Medicine 2020-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7406704/ /pubmed/32802338 http://dx.doi.org/10.35371/aoem.2020.32.e22 Text en Copyright © 2020 Korean Society of Occupational & Environmental Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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