South Korea Thursday confirmed its third case of swine flu, in a woman who had returned from North America on the same flight as Seoul’s first confirmed sufferer.
The latest case was a 62-year-old who has recovered and would be released from hospital later Thursday, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The country last Saturday confirmed its first case, a 51-year-old nun who returned on April 26 via the United States from a mission to Mexico. She was discharged from a military hospital Monday after being treated in quarantine.
South Korea has stepped up its inspections of inbound travellers. It has announced plans to stockpile enough Tamiflu and other anti-influenza drugs to treat five million people, twice the number at present.
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