More New One-Day Coronavirus Cases in South Korea than in China

Of course numbers from China are unreliable, but if you believe the numbers, the spread of the coronavirus in South Korea is growing at a rate larger now than where it started:

South Korea reported yet another record spike of new cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday, with most new infections identified in the hardest-hit city of Daegu as virus tests started on more than 210,000 members of a religious sect at the center of the epidemic.

The 505 new cases, marking the sharpest daily spike yet and outnumbering the 433 new cases reported in China, where the virus originated, earlier in the day, took the nation’s total infections to 1,766, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).

A 75-year-old virus patient who is tied to the religious sect in Daegu died of respiratory failure earlier Thursday, bringing the nation’s death toll to 13.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but of the 505 new cases 422 of them were in Daegu and mostly tied to members of the religious sect that began the outbreak in the city.