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K-Quarantine

K-Quarantine noun: 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.

Noun

K-Quarantine (uncountable)

  1. (South-Korea, neologism) 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

Origin of K-Quarantine

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

Questions about K-Quarantine

What does K-Quarantine mean?
K-Quarantine means 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.
What part of speech is K-Quarantine?
K-Quarantine is a noun.

Words near K-Quarantine in the dictionary

  1. K-point
  2. K-points
  3. K-pop
  4. K-popper
  5. K-poppers
  6. K-Quarantine
  7. k-rad
  8. K-rage
  9. K-rail
  10. K-rails
  11. K-rat

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