No additional cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome were reported in South Korea on Monday, with the total number of people diagnosed with the disease standing at 186.
The death toll from MERS also remained unchanged at 33 as no additional deaths have been reported over the past six days, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Still, 36 of those diagnosed with the disease remain hospitalized as of Monday while 12 are in unstable condition.
The remaining 117 of the 186 diagnosed with the disease have been discharged from hospitals following complete recoveries.
In addition to those diagnosed, 907 others are still in isolation as suspected cases, though the number dropped from 982 the previous day.
The Ministry of Education, meanwhile, said as of Monday, there are no schools or preschools closed due to the MERS outbreak. Schools nationwide had undergone a mass closedown over the past month. Since a total of 149 schools had canceled classes on June 2, when the ministry first began to keep tally, the number had surged to as high as 2,903 on June 12. The number had dwindled since, with a total of 13 people between the age of 3 and 17 having been infected by the virus so far.
Since May 20 when the country reported its first case, 16,326 people have been subject to isolation for possible infection after coming in close contact with MERS patients.
As of Monday, 15,419 of them have been released after showing no symptoms of the disease for more than the known maximum incubation period of 14 days.
MERS is a viral respiratory disease that was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
The disease had carried a very high fatality rate of over 40 percent until the outbreak here, as there currently is no vaccine or treatment for the disease.
In South Korea, the fatality rate of the disease remains at 17.7 percent.
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