Many countries successful in COVID fight seeing resurgent cases - WHO


  • World
  • Tuesday, 23 Jun 2020

GENEVA (Reuters) - Many countries that have been successful in tackling the coronavirus are seeing an increase in cases due to religious or leisure gatherings or in closed quarters like nightclubs and dormitories since relaxing curbs, WHO officials said on Monday.

South Korea said for the first time on Monday it was in the midst of a "second wave" of infections around Seoul, driven by small but persistent outbreaks stemming from a holiday in May.

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