South Korea reports rebound in new coronavirus cases after nursing home outbreak
The Korea Facilities for Illness Regulate and Prevention reported 152 new cases, taking the nationwide tally to eight,565.
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South Korea posted a bounce in new coronavirus cases on Thursday, reversing days of slowing infections after a new outbreak emerged in a nursing home in the hardest-hit town of Daegu.
The Korea Facilities for Illness Regulate and Prevention reported 152 new cases, taking the nationwide tally to eight,565.
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The rustic had recorded fewer than 100 new infections for 4 days in a row till Wednesday.
Some of the new cases, 97 are from Daegu, southeast of Seoul, the place the KCDC mentioned a minimum of 74 sufferers at a nursing home have examined sure for the virus this week.
The KCDC didn’t specify now most of the new cases had been related to the nursing home without delay.
The recent outbreak has brought about Daegu officers to release intensive tests on all different nursing houses involving greater than 33,00zero other folks.
“The upward push in new infections may well be ascribed to the nursing home the place the outbreak befell and our across-the-board survey on identical amenities”, Daegu Mayor Kwon Younger-jin informed a briefing, with out elaborating at the numbers.
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