South Korea put on high alert, Italy battles virus outbreak
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s president said Sunday that he was putting his country on its highest alert for infectious diseases, ordering officials to take “unprecedented, powerful” steps to fight a soaring viral outbreak, while a continent away in Italy, authorities battled to contain Europe’s first major outbreak of the virus.China also reported hundreds more infections for a total of about 77,000, and Iran raised its death toll from the virus to eight — the […]
