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S. Korea to help N. Korea screen for MERS carriers

เผยแพร่:   โดย: MGR Online

SEOUL, REPUBLIC OF KOREA: A South Korean flag (C) flutters at an elementary school in Seoul on June 4, 2015 as the school closed temporarily in response to public fears over Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). Hundreds more schools closed on June 4 in South Korea as officials struggled to ease growing panic over an outbreak of the MERS virus that has infected 35 people, killed two and caused thousands to cancel travel plans. AFP PHOTO/Jung Yeon-Je

June 4, 2015
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea said Thursday it had agreed to a request from North Korea to install thermal-imaging cameras in their Kaesong joint industrial zone to prevent infection from a MERS virus outbreak in the South.

Kaesong lies 10 kilometres (six miles) over the border in North Korea, and around 500 South Koreans travel there every day to manage factories that employ some 53,000 North Korean workers.

"At the request of North Korea, we will provide a number of thermal imaging cameras to be set up in Kaesong," a South Korean unification ministry official told AFP.

South Korea is currently struggling to contain what has become the worst outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outside Saudi Arabia.

At least 35 people have been infected, of which two have died, triggering widespread public anxiety and the closure of more than 700 schools.

The Unification Ministry said it would send the same cameras it provided when North Korea became deeply concerned about the spread of the Ebola virus.

North Korea closed its borders to foreign tourists in October last year to keep out the Ebola virus and enforced a strict 21-day quarantine period on anyone entering the country.

It only reopened its borders to foreign travel in March.
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