South Korea Coronavirus Crisis: Situation Fast Deteriorating, Daegu Mayor Lodges Police Charges Against Church, Deaths 13, Infected 2022, Critical 37
Source: South Korea Coronavirus News Feb 28, 2020 4 years, 1 month, 3 weeks, 2 hours, 5 minutes ago
The
South Korea Coronavirus crisis is fast deteriorating as medical supplies, test kits and basic necessities are running low. In the last 24 hours 256 new confirmed
coronavirus cases were reported of which, almost 85% of these from Daegu province and were linked to members of the Christian cult group that triggered the mass spread. However 12 percent of the new cases were linked to sites that could become locations of mass infections such as military bases, hospitals and factories. To date there are now almost 422, 750 suspected cases of which almost 235,000 are church members from the Cult group, Shincheonji Church of Jesus while another 78,000 are from various military bases.
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The efforts to locate, track and test all these suspected
coronavirus cases all over
South Korea is taking toll on authorities while test kits are also becoming scarce.
Meanwhile, it has been revealed that senior members of the Church group are not cooperating fully with health officials and are withholding information, prompting the Mayor of Daegu to report criminal charges against officials and members of the Shincheonji religious group.
Mayor Kwon Young-jin told reporters on Friday that the group failed to include some members on its list submitted to the city and he had reported the group’s Daegu branch officials to police for “hampering the
South Korea’s measures to contain the
coronavirus.”
Authorities from Daegu discovered that “the group omitted the information of 1,762 Shincheonji trainees” when comparing the list provided by the group to the one separately obtained by the South Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The church group said that the trainees are not official members.
Some of those trainees omitted from the Shincheonji list however have tested positive for the novel
coronavirus, according to the Daegu city government.
Kwon added that most of the infected patients in Daegu were from the Shincheonji religious group.
On 28
th February morning,
South Korea reported 256 more confirmed cases of the novel
coronavirus, bringing the national total to 2,022, according to the South Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).The death toll remains at 13 but more than 37 patients are in critical conditions.
A total of 1,314 cases since the beginning of the outbreak have come from Daegu, according to the KCDC.
The
coronavirus is widespread over all
South Korea with cases in all 9 provinces and all major cities including Seoul.
Medical experts and researchers in
South Korea say that by the end of the weekend, at least 0.18 percent of the population of 51.6 million people in
South Korea could be confirmed infected with the
coronavirus but the backlog at labs and scarcity of test kits is preventing the fact to be easily witnessed and audited.
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