Seventy-two Hours, Targeting Time from First COVID-19 Symptom Onset to Hospitalization

https://jkms.org As of April 27, altogether 629 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases have been diagnosed in Seoul, two of whom have died (fatality rate, 0.32%) since the first COVID-19 patient in Seoul was confirmed on January 24, 2020. There were 65.7 patients and 0.2 deaths per 1 million population, which is an exceptional result compared to that in other major metropolitan cities in the world (e.g., fatality rate of New York is 7.6% and Tokyo is 2.7%).1,2