Nearly 200 coronavirus survivors from a secretive South Korean sect blamed for the country's early outbreak donated blood plasma Friday to help ...
Its elderly leader, Lee Man-hee, was arrested earlier this month for allegedly hindering the government's efforts to contain the epidemic.On Friday around 160 of them donated to the Korean Red Cross in Daegu, the centre of the Shincheonji outbreak.
Donor Park Mi-kyung, 56, who was released from hospital in March, told AFP:"Now the virus is spreading again, I hope a cure can be developed quickly." Shincheonji was heavily vilified back in February, and more than 1.4 million people signed a petition on the South Korean presidential office website demanding its dissolution."Because we have been framed as a cult by the religious circles, I think it's possible that people felt more antagonistic towards an emerging sect," Kim Young-eun, the sect's spokeswoman, told AFP.
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