SEOUL: South Korea said on Saturday (Apr 4) it will extend its intensive social distancing campaign scheduled to end on Monday by two weeks in a bid to curb the rate of coronavirus infections to around 50 a day.
The country has largely managed to bring under control Asia's largest epidemic outside China with around 100 or fewer new daily cases.
But smaller outbreaks in churches, hospitals and nursing homes, as well as infections among travellers, continue to emerge. Advertisement Advertisemen