August 13, 2020 Trevor Williams
When Indonesia’s consul general, Nana Yuliana, returned home in April after the pandemic, she discovered a replaced country.
Indonesia had not yet reached its peak. The number of coronavirus cases continues in hot spots such as Jakarta, the capital and East Java. But even then, the country had begun to have an edition of the new standard. Shopping malls and restaurants with limited capacity and a technology-based access policy had been opened.
With a U.S. phone number, Yuliana struggled to access locations that required scanning a virtual QR code for touch search and notification purposes.
“My sister helped me register,” Yuliana said at Global Atlanta’s third virtual consular verbal exchange on August 6, also with diplomats from India and South Korea. The series of occasions is sponsored by Miller and Martin PLLC.
Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world, recorded about 123,000 cases of infections, the largest time among Southeast Asian countries, the Philippines, but even less than in Georgia alone. The United States has eclipsed five million instances and continues to see tens of thousands of instances consistent with the daily increase.
As Indonesia’s reopening continues, the generation has played a key role in isolating outbreaks and expanding tactile research. The government’s PeduliLindungi voluntary application had been downloaded 4.6 million times as of mid-July, making it the fourth most frequently downloaded government app in the world to combat the pandemic.
In this regard, Yuliana said that Indonesia is learning through a partnership with South Korea, which made it popular to a competitive reaction among democracies.
Since its peak in February, the new daily instances in South Korea are double digits, many of which are imported from abroad. It has just under 15,000 infected and just over three hundred deaths, even after holding elections in April. On August 12, only 56 new cases were detected.
A key to good fortune in the country that would face the primary coVID-19 outbreak after investment in physical conditioning formulas administered by the Chinese government for a diagnostic check before the country even had a proven case, said Kwangsuk Lee, Atlanta’s deputy consul general.
The tests peaked at 20,000 by day, adding at car and non-appointment service sites that Korea has evolved for the convenience of citizens and the protection of fitness personnel at first.
Now the check numbers have stabilized. A total of 1.6 million controls were carried out in a country of 50 million inhabitants, but at first the world was the envy of the physically powerful in line with the numerical control figures in South Korea.
“This has helped us a lot in our containment strategy with this fatal virus. Because COVID-19 can show few or no symptoms, we prioritize early detection through a comprehensive and preventative diagnostic test,” Lee said at the event.
Korea has also been among the highest competitive in using knowledge of the location of smartphones to inform citizens of possible exposure and to require self-quarantine, a practice that has raised privacy and security considerations in many countries. U.S. officials criticized as draconian a QR formula implemented in China that limited the use of a red, yellow or green code formula, based on knowledge of the user’s location.
The New York Times found that many of the programs implemented through governments had vulnerabilities, while MIT Technology Review highlighted the shortcomings of 25 of them.
However, Korea argues that ICTs have been an invaluable tool in the struggle. For example, the Ministry of Health has created a mandatory application that citizens returning to the country must install on arrival and use to self-report symptoms and temperature daily for a 40-day auto-40-day period of 14 days.
By April, it had been downloaded 170,000 times; Korean officials, adding To Mr. Lee, characterize measures to prevent national closures and keep the country’s borders open for the duration of the pandemic, an achievement that has not been imaginable elsewhere.
The Indian touch tracking app Aarogya Setu – “gateway to health” – was one of those that were criticized very early for privacy issues. Now, the app has been downloaded through 150 million or minus 500 million smartphone users in India, mandatory, and officials say knowledge helped track existing access points and hopes where the next ones would emerge.
India is no stranger to the deployment of great technological responses to the “sixth of humanity” living within its borders, said Consul General Swati Kulkarni. More than one billion other people are registered with a biometric identity formula known as Aadhaar, a formula that has faced its percentage of controversy, while more than three hundred million bank accounts have been created through a government registration crusade in recent years.
India now faces the third largest coronavirus outbreak in the world, the United States and Brazil, with more than 2.2 million cases. This is despite a closure that lasted more than two months and was plagued by early unrest when millions of migrant workers returned home, leading to fears of introducing the virus into rural areas. Most primary outbreaks have been concentrated in primary urban centers such as Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.
Since the lifting of the lockout measures, cases have increased, but Kulkarni believes the first steps taken by the government have saved India time to expand the application, prepare hospitals, create an “indigenous” antigen verification kit, and expand non-public coverage plants. . Team.
He added that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had temporarily followed the responses from videoconferences that allowed him to hold talks with leading ministers and to watch for the reaction in the hardest-hit states such as Maharashtra.
“Under a democratic and federal system, others have responded overwhelmingly, that what the government is doing is better for them, which is for the public good, for the fitness of those they enjoy,” he said of the closure.
India’s recovery rates have been the best and its mortality rates, at least as reported, have been low, consistent with the capita compared to other countries that have been similarly affected, he said. In another call with leading ministers on August 11, Modi noted that 80% of the country’s active bodies are concentrated in 10 states.
Cases can increase globally – the one-day total of 13 August more than 63,000 – much of India ‘walks to normal,’ Kulkarni said, despite the prospect of its first recession in decades. More than $270 billion has been injected into stimulus measures, or about 10% of GDP, into the economy, with a specific focus on small businesses.
The government has also taken the time to institute more reforms to attract investors, especially those who opt for a production option in China.
Indonesia and Korea see opportunities, their representatives said.
Yuliana said that as of 2019, Georgia accounted for approximately 6% of U.S. industry with Indonesia, bringing vegetable oil, furniture, clothing, rubber and many of the country’s other products. Tensions between the United States and China have helped Indonesia reposition itself, with 20 corporations setting up factories of choice in Central Java once the pandemic is subsidized.
“Our cooperation with the United States is strengthening, especially in reaction to the COVID pandemic,” he said, noting that one hundred of the thousand donated enthusiasts promised across the United States have arrived in the country.
Lee of Korea doubted that the COVID-19 crisis was in the interest of Korean corporations in Georgia, which has invested billions in the state in recent years.
The 3 countries restrict foreign travel, however, Indonesia and Korea grant exemptions to business travelers who are guilty of their business activities.
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