Thousands wait for hospital beds in South Korea as coronavirus cases surge

South Korea announced 516 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday as a great many wiped out individuals hung tight for medical clinic beds in Daegu, the city at the focal point of the most exceedingly terrible flare-up outside terrain China.

The new cases present to South Korea's aggregate to 5,328, with at any rate 32 passings, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said. Most cases were in and around Daegu, the nation's fourth-biggest city, where this season's flu virus like the infection has spread quickly through individuals from a periphery Christian gathering.

Wellbeing authorities anticipate that the number of new cases should be high for the not so distant future as they complete the testing of more than 200,000 individuals from the Christian organisation, just as a considerable number of other presumed cases from littler groups.

"We need exceptional measures amid crisis," South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-Kyun said during an extraordinary bureau meeting.

"To defeat COVID-19 as fast as would be prudent and limit the effect on the economy, it is important to infuse every accessible asset proactively."

COVID-19 is the disease brought about by the new coronavirus which rose out of focal China toward the end of last year and has spread far and wide.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has dropped his arranged outing to the UAE, Egypt and Turkey in mid-March, because of the disturbing spread of the sickness at home, as indicated by the presidential Blue House.

Medical clinics in South Korea's hardest-hit zones were scrambling to suit the flood in new patients.

In Daegu, 2,300 individuals were holding back to be admitted to clinics and brief clinical offices, Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip said.

A 100-bed military clinic that had been taking care of a significant number of the most genuine cases was expected to have 200 extra beds accessible by Thursday, he included.

On Tuesday Moon pronounced "war" on the infection, apologised for deficiencies of face covers and guaranteed support for disease hit independent ventures in Asia's fourth-greatest economy.