Image of Asia: Schools reopen during Korean MERS outbreak
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 08:30
in Health & Medicine
In this photo by Ahn Young-joon, elementary school students wearing masks return to a school in Seoul, South Korea, that reopened Monday after a temporary closure due to the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome. About 2,900 of the country's schools and kindergartens had been closed, but the World Health Organization last week urged them to be reopened because the disease is not spreading in the larger community. Many people are seen on the streets wearing masks, and the public trans...