Asia Today: Seoul surge appears to spread around South Korea

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ASIA TODAY: South Korea has added its most new virus cases in months, driven by a surge around the capital that appears to be spreading nationwide. The 324 new infections was its highest single day total since early March.

A worker wearing a face mask to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus welds at a construction site in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020.

Most of the people recently infected live in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan region, where health workers are scrambling to track transmissions from various sources, including churches, restaurants, schools and workers. Another factor was that the narrowness of the Daegu outbreak effectively aided its containment — most were tied to a single church congregation of thousands of members.

Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip said 739 infections confirmed as of Friday were linked to members of a northern Seoul church led by a vocal critic of the country’s president. Sarang Jeil Church pastor Jun Kwang-hun was hospitalized with COVID-19 on Monday after participating in an anti-government protest last week where he shared a microphone on stage with other activists.

 

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Due to a church meeting.

Poor Seoul! They did so well the first time around. Maybe second time won’t be so bad.

Wow according to Biden is a US problem now thanks to Trump, the rest of the world is dealing with it just fine

Just a reminder that South Korea and the U.S. had their first confirmed cases of coronavirus on the same day. The U.S. tallied 46,500 new cases today.

Places opened travel and aren't banning visitors from places like US who may be using fake/alternative visas/passports or old negative tests to skirt regs Scientists have warned since January that nonsyptomatic carriers could theoretically be infectious for months if untreated

Scamdemic

IT'S NOT A DEATH SENTENCE!!! ITS THE FLU!!!

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324? LOL. Amateur hour.

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