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MERS patients receive apology

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The heir of the Samsung business empire apologized Tuesday as criticism mounted over a Samsung hospital’s role in spreading Middle East respirator­y syndrome in South Korea, which has killed 27 since May.

Lee Jae-yong, 47, apologized to MERS victims and patients in his first public speech since taking over the Samsung Foundation last month. He succeeded his ailing father in leading the charity foundation that owns Samsung Medical Center.

Out of 175 MERS patients in South Korea, 85 were patients, relatives, staff or visitors of the Samsung hospital in Seoul. One was a Samsung contract worker who was not quarantine­d and continued to work at the hospital until confirmed to have MERS.

 ?? AHN YOUNG-JOON/AP ?? Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong apologized on Tuesday for the company’s role in South Korea’s MERS outbreak.
AHN YOUNG-JOON/AP Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong apologized on Tuesday for the company’s role in South Korea’s MERS outbreak.

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