South Korea extends intensive social distancing to reach 50 daily coronavirus cases - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The country has largely managed to bring under control Asia’s largest epidemic outside China with around 100 or fewer new daily cases.said on Saturday it will extend its intensive social distancing campaign scheduled to end on Monday by two weeks in a bid to curb the rate of coronavirus infections to around 50 a day.

But it is “too early to be at ease,” Health Minister Park Neung-hoo said, citing a recent spike in imported cases and small cluster infections which also prompted the government to cancel the re-opening of schools next week. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 94 new cases on Saturday, taking the national tally to 10 156. The death toll rose by three to 177, while more than 300 recovered from the virus for a total of 6 325.

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