South Korea becomes biggest Covid-19 centre outside China

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SEOUL (AFP): South Korea reported 161 more coronavirus cases Monday (Feb 24), taking the nationwide total to 763 and making it the world's largest total outside China.

The country has seen a rapid surge in the number of coronavirus cases since a cluster of infections emerged from a religious sect in the southern city of Daegu last week.

Two more people had died, it added -- both of them connected to a second cluster around a hospital in Cheongdo -- taking the toll to seven.

 

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