S KOREA MERS OUTBREAK SINCE MAY 2015 TO TODAY 180 CONFIRMED INFECTED, 29 DEATHS (50 YEARS OLD AND ABOVE), 74 RECOVERED FROM THE ILLNESS, AND 2,640 STILL IN QUARANTINE

 

A caregiver who had not been informed about her exposure to Middle East respiratory syndrome virus died just two days after her official MERS diagnosis on Wednesday, raising questions once again about the government’s handling of the outbreak.
Her death was one of two reported by Seoul on Thursday, raising the nation’s death toll to 29 and the fatality rate of the disease to 16.1 percent. Health authorities also confirmed one new case at a Busan-based hospital, bringing the total number of MERS cases to 180.
The late caregiver -- the nation’s 173rd MERS case -- is believed to have been exposed to the virus on June 5, when she accompanied her client to Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong in Seoul, where the 76th MERS patient was staying at the time.
The 70-year-old, however, had never been informed about the exposure by the authorities, and therefore was never put under quarantine. 

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To prevent suspected patients' omission from the monitoring list, the government now has all visitors to emergency rooms, including patients, guardians, ambulance workers and other staffers, leave their names and contact information.
In the meantime, one new MERS case has been confirmed, with total confirmed cases rising to 180. The 55-year-old man contracted the disease at Good GangAn Hospital in Busan.

Seven patients meanwhile have recovered and were released from quarantine facilities, raising the total to 74. The figure means that 41.1 percent of total confirmed patients have now recovered.

The 74 people recovered 12.4 days on average after being confirmed, and 18.3 days after first showing symptoms.
Some 2,640 are still in isolation for possible exposure to MERS patients.

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