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South Korea shuts night clubs, bars over fresh cases of COVID-19

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South Korean authorities on Saturday shut down more than 2,100 nightclubs including hostess bars after dozens of COVID-19 infections were linked to clubbers.

The hang outs were shut after South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 18 new cases were reported on Friday.

One of the patients was a 29-year-old man who visited three clubs in Seoul’s Itaewon district last Saturday before testing positive days later.

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said 16 more cases were confirmed in Seoul alone in the following hours.

The development, according to him, brought the total number of infections linked to club-goers to 40 – 27 in Seoul, 12 in neighbouring Incheon and Gyeonggi, and one in the southern port city of Busan.

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South Korea has 10,840 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 256 deaths.

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