Staying with the MERS case.<br />On Sunday, the country's Prime Minister convened an emergency meeting... to look at ways to try and stop the solitary case causing yet another outbreak.<br /> Choi Si-young has more. <br /><br /> After a 61-year-old man tested positive for MERS on Saturday upon returning to Seoul from Kuwait, Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon presided over an emergency inter-ministerial meeting on Sunday at the Seoul Government Complex.<br /><br /> "In 2015, we learned that it's better to overreact to an outbreak than to be late in our response. I encourage everyone here to act on that lesson."<br /><br /> At the meeting, the PM called on civil servants to be prepared for any contingencies, so that people don't have to worry.<br />He encouraged the officials to keep the public updated about the MERS outbreak online through their ministries' websites.<br />The minister also urged anyone who has come in contact with the people under quarantine to come forward... to help stop the spread of the highly contagious virus.<br /><br /> The first MERS patient, identified only as a Seoul resident, had visited a local medical center in Kuwait to get treatment for diarrhea,... and then sought additional treatment on Friday at Samsung Medical Center.<br />Suspected of having caught MERS, he was then transferred to Seoul National University Hospital and placed under quarantine after testing positive.<br />22 others suspected of having come in contact with him are also under quarantine.<br />They'll be tested and monitored for the next two weeks, the virus's maximum incubation period.<br /><br /> The first case of MERS in Korea was confirmed in 2015,... and 38 people died... before the outbreak was declared over in December of the same year.<br /><br />Choi Si-young, Arirang News. <br />
