South Korea has confirmed five more cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, bringing to 30 the number of infected people since the outbreak began in the country two weeks ago.
Seoul reported its first two deaths from MERSon Tuesday, fuelling fear in the country which has reported the most cases outside the Middle East, where the disease first appeared.
The country has quarantined or isolated about 1,300 people for possible MERS infection.
More than 200 schools, most in the province of Gyeonggi around the capital, and where the first death occurred on Monday, were shut for the week, the education ministry said.
Of the five new cases reported on Wednesday, four had been in the same hospital as the first patient, a 68-year-old man who had just returned from a trip to four countries in the Middle East.
The other, a 60-year-old man, caught it from another infected person.
No comments:
Post a Comment