SEOUL, Feb 20 — The mayor of a South Korean city at the centre of a new coronavirus outbreak told residents to stay indoors today as a surge in confirmed cases linked to a local church raised the prospect of wider transmission. Malls, restaurants and streets in Daegu, the country's fourth largest...
Thursday, 20 Feb 2020 02:44 PM MYT
Malls, restaurants and streets in Daegu, the country's fourth largest city with a population of 2.5 million, were largely empty in scenes that local social media users likened to a disaster movie. Of that national tally, 49 patients are from Daegu or nearby and have been traced to an infected person who attended a local church, a scenario that KCDC described as a “super-spreading event.”
South Korea's vice health minister Kim Kang-lip said at a separate briefing in the administrative city of Sejong that the situation was “very grave.” The Defence Ministry banned troops stationed in Daegu from leaving their barracks and receiving guests. The US military imposed similar restrictions on its army base in the city, which houses thousands of troops, family members and civilian employees, curbing travel and closing schools and child care centres.Local media footage showed the few people on Daegu's usually bustling downtown streets wore face masks and kept far apart.
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