We did not, as a principle, do what South Korea did, in the sense that if the traditional contact tracing interviews work, we do not publish the travel history and whereabouts of those confirmed cases. That’s a different social norm. This is important. It’s because of that, people who show any symptom, they will be comfortable showing up to their local clinician and say, “I want to talk to a medical officer.”

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