From our correspondent in Beijing
Under the wan light of the spotlight, the 496 empty chairs lined up in the studio symbolize the dead who have fallen as a result of Covid, in South Korea, since the start of the epidemic.
This macabre staging, on the occasion of the filming in Seoul of a South Korean television documentary devoted to the pandemic, would be impossible in France.
Gigantic hangars would have to be requisitioned to greet the 47,000 victims of the virus with dignity and provide new rooms every day as the death toll continues to grow.
This comparison between two developed nations, members of the OECD and of relatively comparable sizes (52 million inhabitants versus 67 million) leaves one wondering.
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This gap illustrates the growing health gap between the West and the Pacific Asia, already visible in the spring and which is becoming dizzying at the time of the second epidemic wave.
This dropout also has serious societal and economic implications.
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