544 schools cancel classes over MERS
Jun 3, 2015
More than 500 schools have canceled classes to prevent the spread of a deadly virus that has killed two South Koreans, the Ministry of Education said Wednesday. As of 5 p.m., students and teachers have been told not to show up at 544 schools, about 3 percent of some 20,000 schools nationwide, a ministry spokesman said. The vast majority of the total, or 439 schools, are in Gyeonggi Province, wh...