Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 6 with Over 600 Infected in South Korea
The news is getting worse out of South Korea in regards to the spread of the coronavirus:
Four more fatalities from the new coronavirus were reported in Korea over the weekend, bringing the total death toll to six as infections skyrocketed to 602.
The Korean government elevated its official alert level for the coronavirus on Sunday to “red,” the highest in its four-tier system, in a meeting presided over by President Moon Jae-in and pledged to mobilize all resources to subdue the outbreak.
Infections remain heavily concentrated in a single city, Daegu, and the surrounding province of North Gyeongsang, with 495, or 82.2 percent of the total. Four of the six deaths are linked to Daenam Hospital in North Gyeongsang’s Cheongdo County, where nearly 110 other people including medical staff have contracted the disease.
A 40-year-old man in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang, who died Friday posthumously tested positive for the coronavirus Saturday, officials from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said.
A 57-year-old man who was hospitalized in the psychiatric ward of Daenam Hospital before being recently transferred to Dongguk University Gyeongju Hospital in Gyeongju died Sunday morning.
Joong Ang Ilbo
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Surely, president Moon has stopped all travels to and from China?
As of right now, the official toll is 763 infected and 7 deaths.
Deaths lag reported infections… so if you go back to reported infections when the 7 dead people were infected, you get something like a 10% fatality rate… though reported infections are likely a fraction of real infections.
The Chinese statistics are complete nonsense, but trying to divine something factual out of the circumstantial evidence also indicates a fatality rate around 10%.
The Cruise Ship e̶x̶p̶e̶r̶i̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ quarantine will give us some good fatality rates for rich old people. It had a 16.98% infection rate within a month despite (perhaps imperfect) isolation and confinement before they realized the inevitable outcome and ended the e̶x̶p̶e̶r̶i̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ quarantine.
Medical associations in Korea are begging to stop travel with China but the Sinoboos are making political decisions instead of medical one. Apart from this, Korea’s response has been amazing (on the scale of Lord of the Flies to Government). When it is over and it is time to blame, those who favored the feelings of China over the health of Koreans had better be on good terms with former President Park, as they will be occupying her old cell.
“When it is over and it is time to blame, those who favored the feelings of China over the health of Koreans had better be on good terms with former President Park, as they will be occupying her old cell.”
Assuming they survive the trial and plague…