A joint team from WHO and South Korea will visit hospitals where MERS infections were identified and infected patients have been quarantined.

The team will visit hospitals where MERS infections were identified or quarantined patients are being kept and analyze the characteristics of the MERS corona virus in cooperation with the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The joint investigation results will be released on Saturday, the ministry said.
The joint mission will be co-headed by Keiji Fukuda, WHO’s assistant director-general for health security, and Lee Jong-koo, head of JW LEE Center for Global Medicine under Seoul National University’s college of medicine.
As of Monday, MERS infections in South Korea surged to 87 as 23 new cases were identified and the toll reached six.
Source-IANS