12:41 22/06/2015
Seoul - Two people died in South Korea of Middle East Respiratory
Syndrome, and three others were diagnosed, officials said on Monday.
The
latest cases, which included a 97-year-old man being treated for
cancer, brought the death toll to 27 in the recent outbreak, and the
total number of confirmed cases to 169, Yonhap News Agency reported.
The
latest cases were already being monitored because the patients had had
close contacts with other MERS cases, the Ministry of Health and Welfare
was quoted as saying.
The
number of people in isolation after suspected exposure fell on Monday
to 3 833 from 4 035, the report said. Around 9 300 people have been held
and released after the 14-day incubation period since the outbreak
started a month ago.
The fatality rate, which was around 40% in
the Middle East where the virus was originally identified three years
ago, has crept up from under 10% to the current level of 14% in South
Korea, figures from the Ministry of Health and Welfare showed last week.
South Korea is dealing with the biggest outbreak of the disease outside the Middle East, almost entirely centred on hospitals.
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