Number of COVID-19 cases in S. Korea reaches 206

두 번째 사망자 발생...부산서도 코로나19 확진환자 2명 발생

One COVID-19 death reported here in the nation, and the number of confirmed cases continue to escalate.
We start things off by connecting to our Choi Jeong-yoon standing by on the line for us.
So, Jeong-yoon please fill us in.
Daniel, South Korea's second death was reported just few hours ago, a 54-year-old woman who had been hospitalized in Cheongdo Daenam Hospital.
She was being transferred to Pusan National University Hospital as her condition had deteriorated.
But at around 5:18 PM on Friday, the victim was given CPR and later died.
This brings the total number of deaths of COVID-19 in South Korea to two and the Cheongdo Daenam Hospital is where the first death occured as well.
A 63-year-old man who had been hospitalized with schizophrenia for more than twenty years died of pneumonia. It was discovered afterwards that he had COVID-19 through an autopsy.
Experts say the mortality rate of the virus outside Wuhan is estimated to be around point-2 to point-4 percent.
That's lower than MERS but higher than influenza.
With two more new cases in Busan, the total number of confirmed cases has risen rapidly.
That's right Daniel.
More than 1-hundred new cases have been confirmed today alone, bringing the country's total to at least 206
And COVID-19 has struck Busan, the southern port city, for the first time.
A month after the first case in South Korea was confirmed, Busan had no confirmed cases of COVID-19. But two cases were newly confirmed on Friday.
According to the city of Busan on Friday, a 57-year-old woman, who had visited Inje University Paik Hospital in Busan, had symptoms of pneumonia and tested positive.
Another case came from a 19-year-old man.
Most of the new cases are linked to a church in Daegu,...83 out of the 102 newly-confirmed cases in South Korea come from the southeastern city of Daegu and the surrounding Gyeongsangbuk-do Province,...bringing the total number of cases in the country to 206.
Other regions have also reported new cases five in Seoul, four in Gyeongsangnam-do province, four in Gwangju, and one each in the provinces of Chungcheongnam-do, Chungcheongbuk-do, Gyeonggi-do and Jeonllabuk-do... and Jeju.
Back to you Daniel.

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