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Friday, the friendly economy, reporter Kwon Aeri. Reporter Kwon, Coupang announced his apology late yesterday (28th), saying that the delivery article and the goods are safe.

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Yes. Gyeonggi-do yesterday also ordered a two-week collective ban on Coupang's Bucheon Logistics Center and actually suspended business.

Viruses were detected in the shoes or hats used when packing.

It seems clear that the packaging environment was contaminated.

In the future, additional checks will be needed in various areas such as worker safety in the center, and the consumer's anxiety about infection through courier products is growing again.

In the Internet community, I noticed a lot of questions about whether we could courier it yesterday or whether it would be okay or not.

First of all, the Korean government continues to emphasize that the possibility of infection through courier is very unlikely, such as the WHO, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the CDC.

There have been no reports of infections once received by couriers, and in the case of CDC, it has been explained that it takes several days to several weeks from product shipment to delivery, and there is no possibility of infection.

<Anchor>

But in Korea, it's a rocket delivery, and it's a dawn delivery, so it's quite rare that you can bring it to your house in less than a day.

<Reporter>

We have a very fast delivery. First of all, from the conclusion, we believe that the possibility of infection via a courier service in our home delivery environment is extremely rare.

If you check the details of why today, more and more specific experimental results are coming out about the time the coronavirus can survive in the external environment, so to speak.

The results of a joint research conducted by the United States Allergy Infectious Disease Research Institute and several universities on corona on various substances have been published in a prominent medical journal in the United States, which many medical and disease management centers also refer to.

In the case of corrugated cardboard wrapping, after 24 hours, no more infectious virus was detected. The half-life and the time to halve was a little over 4 hours.

You might think, "Half-day delivery comes in a matter of hours."

In other words, it is to create a friendly environment for viruses and to keep an eye on it as much as possible, and to look closely, reality is much worse for Corona than a laboratory.

And corona is classified as a shelled virus. When this shell is damaged, the infectivity drops rapidly, but in reality it is very easy to damage.

[Lee Geun-hwa / Professor, Department of Microbiology, Hanyang University College of Medicine: Corrugated cardboard is an absorbent substance, so it is shipped the same day, but in such a condition, the viral envelope is damaged. Through courier, such as the possibility of being infected, the virus is propagated or is Theoretically possible, but I think a realistic euron would not look impossible.]

<Anchor>

Issues reporter, but after hearing a talk about shoes and came out of the hat a lot of consumers just Courier It's not only limited, but there seems to be anxiety about not knowing about unfamiliar places and unfamiliar items.

<Reporter>

Yes. It feels natural, but Corona 19, once contagious from the outside, is hard to last for a long time. Once again, the possibility of infection through courier products is rare. Let's do a little bit, and researchers at the University of Hong Kong have done research similar to the experiment we just introduced.

This is also the result of a fairly credible experiment published in the renowned microbial medical journal 'Lancet Microbe', but it was not detected once after 3 hours of paper or tissue. It is short. Corrugated cardboard is another material.

However, it was stopped after four days on the surface of banknotes and money that we usually think of as paper.

I care a lot about clothes. And wood, such as tables and chairs, didn't come out here on the second day. In glass, after four days, in stainless steel and plastic, after a week, it did not come out.

And we also experimented with medical masks, but detection continued even after about a week on the inside and a week on the outside.

It is a story that is based on experiments such as the caution to be careful when taking off the mask.

Anyway, this is the result in the lab, and in the real world, the coronavirus is much harder to survive.

So, it is the atmosphere of the medical community that concerns about infection through contact with things more and less.

We are more concerned about airborne infections in certain situations, such as the splashing of saliva, coin karaoke cases in Korea, or air-conditioning cases in China.

So don't touch your face and wash your hands often, so you don't need to have an overwhelming fear of home delivery. I want to say it again.