Health committee  Yes, I think that was one of the best mechanisms. As I mentioned earlier, it was these personal measures, non-pharmaceutical interventions, using face masks and also washing hands, that hygiene. Those two were very critical to the entire process of non-pharmaceutical intervention

Health committee  I recollect that it was early February. At that time, I think we had only a few cases across the country, fewer than 30 I would say, but I think it was based on some evidence.

Health committee  It was based on the potential risk of the asymptomatic cases of this epidemic. When you do not know who is infected since they're not showing symptoms, then I think you have to wear a mask so you can actually protect yourself from this asymptomatic infection.

Health committee  —so I know what they are thinking about. This is not the sort of.... Go ahead.

Health committee  Yes. I think these are very important points that you have just brought up. Actually, between Korea and Canada, we are creating this AI—

Health committee  Okay. Go ahead.

Health committee  Yes. I would not say that Korea is perfect. I think we try. I think we use the collective wisdom of—

Health committee  —different key practices, so I think we can come up with the most practical solutions to the problems that you are concerned about. What are the impacts of this confinement, of staying at home, staying where you usually do not wish to spend the whole day? It has a lot of impacts

Health committee  Again, Canadians, Koreans and other people are really eager to reopen and revitalize their economies. This is very critical to many people, especially disadvantaged people in terms of the economy and in other ways. I think you need to have the system ready before you reopen a lot

Health committee  I can go first. Speaking of past experiences and crises that we've had to deal with—I'm thinking of SARS and MERS—Korea was able to institutionalize a very good system of governance when it comes to crisis management. Even before this pandemic, learning from those past lessons,

Health committee  I think all the preparation is very essential, especially when you have some information that there is an asymptomatic part of the epidemic. You have to have very good tools in your hands when it comes to testing and tracing mechanisms. This is critical to the entire process of p

Health committee  I would not necessarily say that is was the drills. I think the more important thing here is that we came at it by asking what sort of legal framework we could use to help the population to go through a difficult time together. I think they worked with some of this individual l

Health committee  Okay, sure. That's the idea that we are currently experimenting with in real time. There are a lot of uncertainties here and there, but I think Canada and Korea have been working together to learn that this is actually going to work. My last point is that this is not the end of

Health committee  Let me get back to the main points. I was going to talk about three points in my presentation. First, we have had partnerships between scholars and officials of the Korean and Canadian governments since last March. Second, based on this partnership we have crafted, especially as

Health committee  Okay, I'll try. I'll speak slowly and loudly so that the interpreter can catch it. I was discussing the science and the database, the partnership. The scholars in Korea and in Canada have worked together in the past several months to model [Technical difficulty—Editor] of COVID-