HEALTH-MERS/SOUTH KOREA NEWSER South Korea reports no additional cases of MERS for four consecutive days

Record ID: 149151

  • Title: HEALTH-MERS/SOUTH KOREA NEWSER South Korea reports no additional cases of MERS for four consecutive days
  • Date: 1st July 2015
  • Summary: SEJONG, SOUTH KOREA (JULY 1, 2015) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** SOUTH KOREA'S DIRECTOR OF DISEASE PREVENTION CENTER AT KOREA CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, JEONG EUN-KYEONG, STANDING AT PODIUM WITH SOUTH KOREAN ASSISTANT MINISTER OF HEALTHCARE POLICY, KWON DEOK-CHEOL, STANDING NEARBY JOURNALISTS SITTING AT NEWS BRIEFING (SOUNDBITE) (Korean
  • Embargoed: 16th July 2015 13:00
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  • Story Text: South Korea's health ministry said on Wednesday (July 1) that no additional cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been reported for four consecutive days.
    The health ministry said the total number of confirmed MERS cases remained at 182, and 97 patients had been discharged from hospital. There were no deaths, the ministry added, leaving the total of dead from the outbreak at 33.
    "As of now, a total of 52 patients are undergoing treatment, 97 patients have been discharged from hospital and 33 people have died. And the total number of confirmed MERS cases is 182. Compared to yesterday, the total number of patients undergoing treatment has declined by two, and two patients left hospital. There were no more deaths, and there were also no new confirmed cases of MERS yesterday," said Jeong Eun-kyeong, South Korean Director of Disease Prevention Center at Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention, at a daily news briefing.
    On Monday (June 29), South Korean health authorities said this week was a critical time for them in their fight against the spread of the virus.
    The outbreak in South Korea has been traced to a 68-year-old man who returned from a trip to the Middle East in early May and sought medical help at different hospitals before being diagnosed with the MERS virus.
    First identified in humans in 2012, MERS is caused by a corona virus from the same family as the one that triggered the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). There is no cure or vaccine.
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