South Korea on Tuesday officially declared an end to the country's first Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in three years, health authorities here said.
The announcement made at midnight is in line with guidelines set by the World Health Organization that requires no new infections for a minimum of 28 days, which is twice the length of the virus' incubation period, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
On Sept. 8, a single person was diagnosed with MERS after returning home from a three-week business trip to Kuwait via the United Arab Emirates. It was the first confirmed case of the disease in the country since 2015.
Sanitation workers disinfect an airplane of Korea Air Lines Co., which arrived from Dubai, at the airline`s hangar in Incheon, west of Seoul, on Sept. 13, as part of efforts to stop the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. (Yonhap)
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