Korea’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) reported 53
new cases of the virus on Thursday, following 20 a day earlier, taking
the total across the country to 104. Of that national tally, 70 patients are from Daegu or nearby and the
majority have been traced to an infected 61-year-old woman known as
“Patient 31” who attended a church, a scenario that KCDC described as a
“super-spreading event”. ... Daegu Mayor Kwon Young-jin told residents to stay indoors as he warned of likely further cases. ... Kwon cautioned that at least 90 more of the about 1,000 other people
who attended services at the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
were also showing symptoms.
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