Daegu, South Korea's fourth-largest city, was abandoned as residents stayed indoors after dozens of people caught the coronavirus at a local church
Daegu Mayor Kwon Young-jin told residents to stay indoors after 90 people who worshipped at the Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony showed symptoms of infection and dozens of new cases were confirmed.
“We are encouraged by this trend but this is no time for complacency,” World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva. Epidemiologists said there could be good reasons to adjust methodology to ensure resources were being used where most needed. No official tally was likely to record all cases.
“It’s important that authorities do not interpret this as a slowing of the outbreak and let their guard down prematurely.” In at least in one case, the virus was present even though the patient had no symptoms, suggesting symptom-free patients could spread the disease, they wrote in preliminary findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
On Thursday, its central bank cut a borrowing rate, while the authorities extended an order for businesses in Wuhan to shut down until March 11. Schools in the city, which had been due to re-open on Friday, will also stay shut.After taking a beating for weeks, global stock markets have mostly recovered to near record highs on expectations that the virus will soon be contained.
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