(VOVworld) - No new case of infection with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was reported on Sunday in South Korea, but one death was added, the health ministry said.

A quarantine center at Konkuk University Medical Center in Seoul (Photo: Reuters)

The total number of MERS contagion was unchanged at 182 compared with the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare. One more death was added, raising the death toll to 32 and the fatality rate to 17.6 percent. The latest MERS case was a 55-year-old patient died of MERS infection.