By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews
The number of COVID-19 cases in South Korea continue to rise at an incredible pace, in fact now doubling the number of new cases officially being reported out of China.
The Korea CDC reported an additional 813 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 3,150, including 17 deaths.
To demonstrate how large the outbreak has grown, 10 days ago, South Korea reported 31 COVID-19 cases–it is now over 3100!
In China, 427 new confirmed cases and 47 new deaths (45 in Hubei, 1 in Beijing, and 1 in Henan) were reported Friday.
This brings the totals in China to 79,251 confirmed cases, including 2,835 deaths.
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