South Korea: Tian Thien Dia hands a complete list of 310,000 sectarian members to officials to monitor symptoms of nCoV infection.
South Korea's Central Disaster Relief Agency today announced that a list of 245,000 members and 65,000 people who are being trained to become Tan Thien Dia have been transferred to provincial governments for medical monitoring to keep up. detection of people with symptoms of nCoV infection.
The list of South Korean central governments transferred to the provinces excluding minors and the followers of New Heavenly Land abroad, Deputy Health Minister Kim Gang-lip said in a press conference today. He said 99% of sectarian members would be contacted by local officials over the phone.
The list of Tan Thien Dia worshipers submitted to Korean officials is much higher than previously estimated 210,000 sectarian members. South Korean officials have asked the sect to reveal its full membership list, saying that nearly 60% of the more than 4,800 nCoV infections are related to the followers of Tan Thien Dia or once contacted them.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government is asking prosecutors to investigate New Heavenly cardinal Lee Man-hee and 11 other top religious leaders for murder and other criminal charges. They believe that Tan Thien Dia contributed to the increase in Covid-19 deaths.
At a press conference in the afternoon of March 2, Lee dropped to his knees in apology for spreading the virus and pledged to support the government to stop the epidemic and suspend all sectarian activities. However, Mr. Lee refused to take a virus sample at a press conference and declared himself negative for nCoV.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said it has tested 6,561 Xinjiang followers with symptoms of nCoV infection in Daegu, of which 2,685 were confirmed positive for the virus. Deputy Health Minister Kim Gang-lip added that about 9,000 Tan Thien Dia members of the Daegu branch were currently quarantined.
The KCDC this afternoon announced that it had recorded 374 more nCOV infections in the past 16 hours, bringing the total number of nationwide infections to 5,186, of which 28 died.
South Korea recorded the first case of nCoV on January 20 and is currently the second largest outbreak in the world after mainland China. President Moon Jae-in's administration today announced that it will strengthen its battle against nCoV and announce an additional $ 25 billion in efforts to cope with the epidemic.