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Our starting point this Monday morning.
South Korea's rapidly expanding COVID-19 outbreak has claimed more lives and the number of new cases is jumping by the hundreds each day.
For more details, we have our Kim Ji-yeon on the line for us.
Jiyeon, the number of COVID-19 related deaths in South Korea tripled on Sunday.... while the number of confirmed cases continues to rise among groups of people engaged in religious activities.
That's right.
According to Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency, ten more people from a religious group who travelled to Israel... have tested positive for the coronavirus... raising the number of confirmed cases from that group to 28.
Also, Seoul's defense ministry said Monday four more soldiers were confirmed... raising the cases among the South Korean military to eleven... three Army soldiers based in Pocheon ... and an Army executive based in Daegu who had all been in contact with other confirmed cases within the military.
We're still waiting for the total number of confirmed patients as of Monday.
Excluding these new cases... so far the local authorities have said the number of newly confirmed patients increased by 169 in a single day on Sunday, bringing the total in the country to 602.
Among those is a 16-month old girl in Gimpo city ... the youngest among the confirmed so far.
She's believed to have caught it from her parents, who were confirmed with the virus.
The total number of deaths due to the virus rose from two to six people in a single day on Sunday.
The third victim was a 41-year-old male who was found dead Friday in his residence in Gyeongju city... and was confirmed to have the coronavirus during an examination of his body.
The fourth and sixth victims were patients at Daenam Hospital in the southeastern city of Cheongdo , where the country's first coronavirus fatality took place... and it's where at least 112 people have been infected.
With this, the number of coronavirus-related deaths that were hospitalized patients from the Daenam hospital has risen to four.
The fifth victim was a 57-year-old female... and is known to be a member of the Daegu -based religious group known as 'Shincheonji' .
The Korea Centers for Disease Control's central disaster headquarters announced it'll delay the start of the new school year for a week from March 2nd to March 9th... as a preventative measure.
This applies to all kindergarten, elementary, middle, high schools as well as special needs schools nationwide.
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