[makomk]

South Korea seems like a bad example, because they had twice as many Covid cases as China with less than a twentieth the population. Actually, it looks like even New Zealand has reported substantially more Covid cases per capita than China, and they're literally an island a thousand miles away from anywhere else. China's low case numbers really are remarkable.

[aliasEli]

South Korea did well at the early phases of the epidemic[0]. The problem now is that they don't have enough vaccines[1].

China used some draconian measures to achieve their results.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_South_...