South Korea further confirmed 376 positive cases of nCoV, bringing the total number of nationwide infections to 3,526, the highest outside of China.

The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) this morning announced that it had recorded 376 more cases of nCoV, including 333 cases in Daegu City and 26 cases in neighboring North Gyeongsang Province, two major outbreaks in the country. South Korea. KCDC also said that 17 people had died from the disease.

South Korea currently records 3,526 cases nationwide, including one Vietnamese citizen living in the country. As of this morning, South Korea is testing 32,422 people nationwide, while 61,037 are negative. 30 patients were cured.

Nearly 90% of cases have been reported in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province. Cities and major provinces also reported new cases. Seoul recorded 5 more cases, while Busan, Korea's second largest city, added one more case.

The Covid-19 outbreak began in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in China in December, and has now appeared in 64 countries and territories. The epidemic has infected more than 86,000 people, nearly 3,000 died worldwide.

South Korea recorded the first case of nCoV on January 20. The situation was not so serious until February 18, when a 61-year-old Christian woman from the New Heavenly religion in Daegu was confirmed positive for nCoV. The number of infections in the following days soared, sometimes doubling or tripling in just one day, making Korea the second largest outbreak in the world after mainland China.

Officials urged the public to be cautious and anyone who has a fever or respiratory symptoms should stay home. However, officials said they did not consider quarantining the whole city of Daegu in the way China sealed off Wuhan, where the disease had begun.

The government requires schools nationwide to take an extra week off, while in Daegu it is three weeks. More than 70 countries have restricted entry to travelers from South Korea with bans or quarantine tighter due to disease concerns.