Sixty-four people have been infected by the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome since last month.
Hundreds of schools have closed and hundreds of people quarantined.
While the virus has no vaccine, health experts say it spreads through close contact with infected people and not through the air.
The U.N. health agency has reported that there's no evidence yet in South Korea of "sustained transmission in the community."
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