DAY BREAK 06:00 Korea confirms fifth case of MERS in space of week

ARIRANG NEWS 06:00 Coming up today,... Korea confirms its fifth case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. The test results of two suspected cases will be announced later today. The chief nuclear envoys of South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold trilateral talks in Seoul today as they seek ways to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear program. Plus,... a stifling heatwave takes more than one-thousand lives in India as temperatures reach nearly 50 degrees Celsius in parts of the country. Stay tuned for these stories and more. Hello.... to our viewers around the world, it′s 6 a.m. on Wednesday, May twenty-seventh here in Seoul. Thanks for joining us,... I′m Mark Broome. Title: Korea confirms fifth case of MERS in space of week We start with news that another case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome has been confirmed in Korea.... bringing the total number of cases to five,... since the first case was confirmed last week. Officials say the fifth patient is a doctor who treated the first MERS patient last week,... becoming the first case of medical staff infected with the virus. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said,... the doctor is one of the four people,... including a nurse who also treated the first MERS patient,... who underwent the virus test Tuesday after they came down with fevers. While the nurse was confirmed to be free of the virus,... the other two test results will come out this Wednesday morning. Currently,... some 60 people are under home confinement in Korea due to the virus. Most of them are medical staff,... who had treated previous MERS patients. The MERS virus,... which has a fatality rate of around 40 percent,... is relatively new to humans, with only some eleven-hundred cases reported since the first case was confirmed in Saudi Arabia in 2012. There are currently no vaccines or cures available. Title: Nuke envoys from S. Korea, U.S., Japan to hold talks in Seoul The chief nuclear envoys of South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold trilateral talks in Seoul on Wednesday morning. At the top of their agenda seeking ways to resume the long-stalled six-party talks and preventing future North Korean military provocations. Pyongyang has been raising tensions with its recent testing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile... and claims about the strength of its nuclear program. Ahead of their trilateral meeting,... the officials held separate, two-way talks on these matters. The South Korean and American envoys are set to travel to Beijing on Thursday for related talks with their Chinese counterparts. Title: North Korean leader hails SLBM development with photo op North Korea has released a photo of its leader Kim Jong-un posing with a group of scientists that purportedly developed the regime′s first submarine-launched ballistic missile. The move is being seen as an attempt by North Korea to boast about its alleged weapons capabilities. For a look at what t