‘SUPER-Infectious’ Case Of Coronavirus Drops South Korea In Danger

Yesterdays, Yonhap News stated that South Korean governments fear of a serious coronavirus outbreak in this country after the first ‘super-infectious’ case of coronavirus happened and made at least 15 people get infected with Covid-19. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of South Korea declared that the super-infectious person is called ‘patient no. 31’ – the 31^st case of positive infection with coronavirus in this country.

The super-infectious person lives in Daegu, 300 km of distance from Seoul. She reached the church for praying together with the other 10 people. As per reports, she earlier had communicated with a patient of Covid-19 in Daegu hospital and some other citizens. The results of 15 people communicating with the super-infectious case of coronavirus are positive with coronavirus.

Director of South Korea CDC Jung Eun Kyung said that they believe there are more cases of communication at the church. Since then, they start testing all the people who have come to the church.

The super-infectious person was admitted to Daegu Hospital from February 7^th. Initially, this person refused to implement the testing of coronavirus regardless of doctors’ requests. CDC also announced that this person communicated with 166 people. All of them have joined the government to be segregated after getting the announcement.

Up to know, the individual spreading the virus to the super-infectious case of coronavirus in Daegu is unknown. In the announcement on February 19^th, South Korea medical agents noted that as long as they can control the pandemic, they will not blockade Daegu.

On February 19^th, South Korea witnessed 20 new cases positive infected with the coronavirus. Thus, until now, there have been 51 cases of coronavirus patients in this country. Also, according to the CDC of South Korea, 16 patients of Covid-19 have recovered from being treated in segregated areas.

Coronavirus update in the world

In the world, there have been 75,207 positive cases of being infected with the coronavirus. Amongst them, 2,010 people were found dead that almost come from China. Besides, the number of death cases outside China was reported as the Philippines: 1, Hong Kong: 2, Japan: 1, France: 1, and Taiwan: 1.