Coronavirus outbreak in Korea

Wednesday, 19 February 2020

Via Straits Times:

South Korea reported 15 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday (Feb 19), bringing the total number of people infected in the country to 46, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said in a statement.

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.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.