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Date: February 23, 2020 03:02PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-korea-coronavirus-meets-second-183516396.htmlCoronavirus Spread by a Second Coming ‘Cult’ Has Put South Korea on ‘Maximum Alert’
SEOUL—A South Korean church whose founder says, rather mysteriously, that he represents the second coming of Christ on Earth and has unique insights into God’s revelations is getting much of the blame for a major surge in the spread of the deadly coronavirus here.
Fear of the disease now known as COVID-19 actually had been on the decline in South Korea until a fresh outbreak was traced to a 61-year-old woman who belonged to the Shincheonji Church in Daegu, a city of 2.4 million about 170 miles southeast of Seoul. Soon it was clear that more than half the known cases were connected to Shincheonji parishioners.