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Almost all patients at a psychiatric ward of a South Korean hospital tested positive for the coronavirus, with local reports saying a religious sect with followers who were infected had attended a funeral in the same complex.
South Korea’s two confirmed deaths from the virus were also from the Cheongdo hospital’s mental health division, Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Both patients had been moved out of the psychiatric ward for medical treatment before their deaths, Vice Health and Welfare Minister Kim Kang-lip said.
South Korea reported 229 new confirmed cases on Saturday, as the number of infections more than doubled in a day to 433. Of the total, 231 were linked to a church called Shincheonji in the city of Daegu, while at least 111 were from the psychiatric ward of the hospital in Cheongdo County.