South Korea this morning recorded 142 new positive cases with nCoV, bringing the total number of cases to 5,328 people.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) this morning announced the country had 142 more cases of nCoV, bringing the total number of nationwide infections to 5,328 and 32 fatalities.

About 60% of the infections are related to the branch of the Tan Thien Dia cult in Daegu, Korea's fourth largest city with a population of 2.5 million. South Korean officials started expanding tests with residents of Daegu yesterday, warning that the level of virus infection in the community was alarming.

South Korea since the morning of 2/3 has changed the time of synthesizing nCoV cases during the day. Accordingly, the data will be published based on the number of patients up to midnight before, instead of 9am daily as before. Health officials explain the change to give frontline doctors more time to deal with the disease.

Thus, according to the figures as of 3/3 midnight, the number of new infections in Korea yesterday was 516, including 405 cases in Daegu and 89 cases in neighboring North Gyeongsang Province. Other major provinces and cities also reported new cases, with Seoul reporting another case, bringing the total number of cases here to 99.

South Korea recorded the first case of nCoV on January 20. By a month later, the number of cases in Daegu had skyrocketed, related to the Xin Tian Dia church here. The Korean government raised the virus warning to its highest level since February 23 and focused on preventing nCoV from spreading in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province.

According to the Daegu government, about 2,300 positive cases of nCoV in this city were related to Xinye Dia. Officials also tested about 11,000 non-cult people, of whom 1,300 were infected with nCoV.

South Korea is currently the second largest outbreak in the world after mainland China. To prevent the Covid-19 epidemic from spreading, South Korean health officials continue to call on people to keep their distance from others and to avoid crowds, such as religious ceremonies or weekend protests.

Nearly 90 countries and territories have restricted entry to visitors from South Korea with bans or quarantine tighter due to disease concerns. President Moon Jae-in yesterday announced that Korea entered the war against Covid-19, demanding that government agencies "be on duty" 24 hours a day. He said the South Korean government had planned an additional $ 25 billion to cope with the epidemic.