Track and trace policies in South Korea and UK during covid.19

ABSTRACT

In responding to Covid-19 pandemic, countries around the world implemented various policies to impede the virus. But the effect of these polices among East Asian and European countries are Utterly different. This paper chose South Korea and the United Kingdom to conduct a case study to explore whether and to what extent did digital track and trace policies make an effect in curbing the virus. This paper mainly utilizes government websites data and peer-reviewed research articles from PubMed and Google Scholar to support the research. This paper illustrates three critical factors why digital contact tracing systems perfrom better in South Korea than the UK, which are cultural notion, movements from government and collaboration with testing respectively. © 2021 IEEE.