South Korea MERS outbreak: 2nd hospital closed, interest rate cut

A second South Korean clinic has been forced to close, with staff, patients and visitors sent into quarantine, as the country attempts to curb the spread of the MERS virus for a third week.

Fourteen new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome -- one of them a pregnant woman -- were confirmed Thursday, bringing the total number of cases to 122.

One of the 122 confirmed cases, a South Korean male, is being monitored by Chinese authorities since he arrived in the Chinese city of Guangdong in late May.

The South Korean outbreak is the biggest outside of Saudi Arabia, where the little-understood virus was first detected in 2012.

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