Church-linked coronavirus cases in South Korea on steady rise ahead of more school reopenings

SEOUL - South Korea's coronavirus fight hit another snag on Tuesday as church-linked cluster infections in the Seoul metropolitan area continued to rise ahead of further school reopenings, a key feature of eased social distancing, Yonhap news agency reported.

A string of virus cases traced to churches in Seoul and the surrounding metropolitan area have emerged as a new source of concerns as the country is still wrestling with cases tied to nightclubs and a distribution center in the greater Seoul area. The agency said 71 per cent of 24 virus patients tied to the churches showed no symptoms, indicating that those who have come in contact with them could be unwittingly infected.

The health authorities remain skittish about the possibility that sporadic church-traced cases could lead to a potential new wave of mass infections in the densely populated area. "Large-scale infections are feared to come in the Seoul metropolitan area, but we can succeed in containing the virus spread when citizens raise their guards against the pandemic to break the chain of virus transmissions," senior health official Sohn Young-rae said in a briefing.

Some 1.8 million students will go back to school on Wednesday as part of the third phase of school reopenings after high school seniors became the first group to do so on May 20.

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