A South Korean hospital suspended most services on Sunday after being identified as the epicenter of the spread of a deadly respiratory disease that has killed 14 people since being diagnosed in the country nearly four weeks ago.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called an emergency meeting for Tuesday on South Korea's "large and complex" outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the biggest outside Saudi Arabia, where it was first identified in humans in 2012.
MERS was diagnosed in South Korea on May 20 in a businessman who had returned from a trip to the Middle East and has spread through hospitals.