SEOUL: Some members of a church at the centre of South Korea's coronavirus outbreak visited the Chinese city of Wuhan in January, where the ...
The world's 12th largest economy has the highest national total in the world outside China, after it saw a rapid surge in the number of coronavirus cases in recent days.
Nearly 90 per cent of the cases were in Daegu and its neighbouring North Gyeongsang province, KCDC said in a statement. The country's death toll remains at 17. The national total is expected to rise further as authorities screen more than 260,000 members of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a secretive entity often accused of being a cult that is linked to around half of the country's cases.
A 61-year-old female member developed a fever on Feb 10, but attended at least four church services in Daegu - the country's fourth-largest city with a population of 2.5 million - before being diagnosed. "The government is now waging all-out responses after raising the crisis alert to the highest level," Moon said at a ceremony marking Independence Movement Day, scaled down due to the outbreak.
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