South Korea announced 161 new instances of the coronavirus, bringing the all out number of contaminated patients in the nation to 763, wellbeing specialists said on Monday, a day after the administration raised its irresistible infection caution to its most significant level.

Of the new cases, 115 were connected to a congregation in the southeastern city of Daegu following a 61-year-elderly person known as “Patient 31” who went to administrations there tried constructive, as per the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).

KCDC additionally announced the seventh passing from the infection, a 62-year-elderly person from a medical clinic in Cheongdo, a region that saw floods in affirmed cases alongside close by Daegu as of late.

“If we cannot block the spread in the Daegu region in an effective way, there are high possibilities it would lead to a nationwide transmission,” Vice Health Minister Kim Kang-lip told a standard instructions.

While the greater part of the new cases were followed to Daegu, practically all significant urban communities and territories announced a few diseases.

Specialists are as yet exploring the specific reason for the new episode, with Patient 31 having no ongoing record of abroad travel.

Kim said the legislature has taken self-isolate quantifies and is directing tests on around 9,500 individuals who partook in administrations at a Daegu part of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, otherwise called the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, went to by Patient 31.

South Korea forced its most elevated irresistible illness alert on Sunday, vowing restricting open exercises and additional assets to Daegu and Cheongdo, which were assigned “special care zones” a week ago.

In Daegu and somewhere else, residents rushed to enormous grocery stores and drug stores to purchase careful covers and supplies. Nearby media photographs showed several individuals arranging before E-Mart stores in Daegu beginning as right on time as 8 a.m.

A progression of political and social occasions during the current week has been dropped, while the way of life service said on Monday a sum of 24 national exhibition halls and libraries will briefly close.

The National Assembly canceled an administration addressing meeting scheduled for Thursday evening as in any event three legislators experienced a check in the wake of interacting with instruction official who tried positive.