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: Her office said the coming week would be a "watershed" for the country response to the disease, according to Asahi Shimbun. The outbreak has fueled public anxiety and hit spending, with thousands in quarantine and the number of closed schools rising to 2,474, including 22 universities. Park had been due to leave for the United States, her country closest ally, on June 14 and meet President Barack Obama on June 16. Many people on the streets are wearing face masks, while attendance at movie theatres and baseball games has dwindled. Some countries around the region have issued advisories against travel to South Korea or stepped up screening of inbound passengers, dealing a setback to a tourism sector that had been a bright spot for the flagging South Korean economy. First identified in humans in 2012, MERS is caused by a coronavirus from the same family as the one that triggered China deadly 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome . There is no cure or vaccine. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.