S Koreans censure govt for inadequate response to Mers

Seoul

SOUTH Korea's growing Mers outbreak has laid bare the country's poor handling of disasters despite President Park Geun Hye's pledge to overhaul public safety measures following last year's ferry disaster, specialists said.

Since the first case was diagnosed on May 20, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome has spread at an alarmingly rapid pace in Asia's fourth largest economy, infecting 166 people and killing 24 of them in less than a month.