3년만의 국내 메르스 상황 내일 0시에 공식 종료<br /><br />South Korea will officially declare an end to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome case that occurred in September as of Monday midnight.<br />One patient was confirmed to have contracted MERS on September 8th which was the first case since a major outbreak of the virus in 2015.<br />That patient was confirmed to have fully recovered on September 17th after being treated in quarantine at a local hospital.<br />The World Health Organization rules that a country is free from a MERS outbreak... if there are no new patients for four weeks, twice the maximum latency period, after the confirmed patient has recovered. <br />