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South Korea has reported more than 160 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s total to 602 – as its disease alert level was raised to the highest.
President Moon Jae-in said the COVID-19 outbreak has reached a “crucial watershed” and the “next few days will be a very important critical moment”.
A fifth person has died in the country from COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, according to the Korea Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (KCDC).
More than 300 confirmed cases are linked to a church in the southeastern city of Daegu after a 61-year-old woman known as “Patient 31” who attended services there tested positive for the virus last week. She had no recent record of overseas travel.
Seventeen South Korean Catholics in North Gyeongsang Province and their tour guide in Seoul who had gone on a pilgrimage to Israel earlier this month were confirmed to have the virus, KCDC said.
The escalation in the alert level allows the government to send extra resources to Daegu city and Cheongdo county, which were designated “special care zones” on Friday. Officials have warned people to avoid non-essential trips there.
On Friday, the confirmation of 100 cases had prompted the declaration of a health emergency in Daegu, South Korea’s fourth-largest city.
Some 78,817 people worldwide have been infected with the virus, almost 77,000 of them in China, where it originated in December.
More than 2,460 people have died, according to figures recorded by Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science.
Courtesy of Sky News
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