South Korea MERS outbreak: 2nd hospital closed, interest rate cut

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Seoul, South Korea (CNN)A second South Korean clinic has been forced to close, with staff, patients and visitors sent into quarantine, as the country attempts to curb the spread of the MERS virus for a third week.

Fourteen new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome -- one of them a pregnant woman -- were confirmed Thursday, bringing the total number of cases to 122.

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Authorities there sealed off two hospitals that treated people with the disease. At least 133 people - patients and staff - will remain inside for the next 11 days, given the incubation period of the virus.

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As a precaution, two hospitals ? one in Seoul and the other in hard-hit Pyeongtaek city ? were sealed off with at least 133 patients and staff inside. They would be sealed off for at least the next 11 days, given the two-week incubation period of the virus, officials said.
?No patients can get out of their rooms,? said a city government official in the capital, Seoul, who declined to be identified. ?Nurses in protective gear are giving them food. No one can get in from outside.?
The Mediheal Hospital ? the first in Seoul to be shut ? will be closed until June 23, an official said.
Pyeongtaek Saint Mary?s hospital in Pyeongtaek, where the first wave of 37 patients were diagnosed, will also remain closed until Friday.
But Samsung Medical Centre, where 58 out of the 126 confirmed infected people contracted the disease, the biggest single group, remains open after being sanitised.

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