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K-Quarantine en · NOUN

Etymology

From K- + quarantine, a term introduced in 2020.

Meanings

  1. (South-Korea, neologism, uncountable) A term to describe the strategy used by Republic of Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic to limit the spread of the virus, including a quarantine system, outreach campaigns, testing, and contact tracing.
    • The Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has achieved great success in the early stage of the epidemic using the so-called K-quarantine measure, which enforces local quarantine around confirmed patients rather than implementing a global lockdown. 2022 February 7, “COVID-19 epidemic under the K-quarantine model: Network approach”, in ScienceDirect:

Relateds

community quarantine · movement control order · circuit breaker