South Korea and Italy are among the countries grappling with the virus, which has killed thousands of people worldwide.
A fourth person has also died from
, the illness caused by the virus, according to the Korea Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention.How to avoid catching and spreading COVID-19 The organisation said 113 of the new cases were reported in Daegu and the surrounding area, where they had been linked to a church and hospital. Thousands of worshippers in the southeastern city were screened for the virus after a 61-year-old church attendee tested positive last week. South Korea's earlier cases were linked to travel to China but the woman had no recent record of overseas travel.Hundreds of couples wearing facemasks tied the knot at a mass wedding in the Philippines amid the threat of the COVID-19 disease.had prompted the declaration of a health emergency in Daegu, South Korea's fourth-largest city.
Some 78,630 people worldwide have been infected with the virus, almost 77,000 of them in China, where it originated in December.
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