South Korea became the world’s second largest corona virus outbreak: 7 deaths, 761 cases

According to newly updated information from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) on the morning of February 24, South Korea recorded another case of death from a new strain of coronavirus (SARS-CoV). -2) cause. In total, 7 people died from the Covid-19 epidemic across the country.

Reportedly, the victim was a 62-year-old man who died at the end of February 23 local time at Daenam Hospital, southeast of Cheongdo district. KCDC has not mentioned the victim’s health history and pre-existing conditions. Just know that out of 7 deaths, up to 5 are related to this hospital.

It is also one of the two largest disease outbreaks in Korea next to the city of Daegu, accounting for more than half of the total number of cases nationwide.

According to KCDC, statistics on February 24 showed that 161 more new virus infections have appeared, bringing the total number of Covid-19 people in Korea to 763 people. Among them, 142 new infections have occurred in Daegu – Korea’s fourth largest city, 300km southeast of Seoul. Seoul detected 3 more cases, Busan and Gwangju had 2 and 1 cases respectively, while Gyeonggi province had 10 cases.

In total, 458 cases of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection have been identified related to Shincheonji church (Tan Thien Dia) and patient number 31 (who was identified as the case). infectious disease), accounting for 60% of total infections. Earlier, the authorities, after obtaining a list of sectarian members, decided to put more than 9334 people into self-isolation. Of these, 1248 cases had symptoms related to Covid-19.

* The situation of the Covid-19 virus outbreak in China is taking place very complicatedly. Update more here.

On February 23, South Korea raised the national alert to “red alert” – the first time since the H1N1 swine flu outbreak in 2009. With this warning, schools will have to temporarily At the time of closure, many flights to and from South Korea had to be postponed. The Korean Ministry of Education has also issued guidelines for kindergartens and elementary schools to postpone the new semester by one week, to prevent the virus from spreading further.

In total, the number of people tested and placed in quarantine in Korea was 8725. South Korea has tested more than 27852 people, with more than 19,000 cases for negative results.