South Korea reported 15 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday—increasing its total by nearly 50 percent—including a cluster of at least 11 centred on the southern city of Daegu.
The trade-dependent South has been hit by the economic fallout from the virus outbreak in neighbouring China, but until Wednesday’s jump, its own case numbers had hardly changed for several days.
The Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said in a statement that 15 new coronavirus cases had been confirmed, raising its total from 31 to 46.
Of those, 13 were in Daegu and neighbouring North Gyeongsang province, with 11 of them believed to be linked to a single patient, a 61-year-old woman.
Ten of them attend the same church as the woman, the KCDC said.
She had first developed a fever on February 10 but reportedly refused to be tested for coronavirus on the grounds she had not recently travelled abroad.
She was not put into quarantine until a week later and was confirmed as the country’s 31st case on Tuesday.
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