Wuhan: In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, photo, medical workers in a protective suit help patients who diagnosed with the coronaviruses as they arrive at a temporary hospital which transformed from an exhibition center in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province. Ten more people were sickened with a new virus aboard one of two quarantined cruise ships with some 5,400 passengers and crew aboard, health officials in Japan said Thursday, as China reported 73 more deaths and announced that the first group of patients were expected to start taking a new antiviral drug. AP/PTI Photo(AP2_6_2020_000021B)
South Korea has reported 256 new coronavirus cases. It takes its total to 2,022 which is the highest in the world outside China.
More than 90 per cent of the new cases are in Daegu, the city at the epicentre of the outbreak in South Korea, and the neighbouring North Gyeongsang province.
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