S.Korea Sees Largest Rise in Coronavirus Cases

South Korea has recorded its largest rise in coronavirus infections in a single day, with 594 new cases confirmed on Friday.

According to the Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), the increase brings the total number of infections in South Korea to 2,931.

Seventeen people have died in the country so far.

South Korea has the highest number of confirmed cases outside China where the outbreak started.

Most of the new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease were in Daegu, the south-eastern city that has been at the center of the country's outbreak.

Separately, there has been concern over a number of new cases of unknown origin in the US states of California and Oregon.

More than 83,650 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed globally, the vast majority of them in China, where 78,961 people have been infected and 2,791 have died.

Source: BBC