The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to determine whether some 160 schools in southern Seoul should be closed on Monday in the face of the MERS outbreak.
 
The meeting comes as Seoul's education superintendent Cho Hee-yeon said earlier that his office will review whether to shut down all schools in the southern districts through which confirmed patients traveled.

The education authority on Friday also said it would keep close tabs on MERS-related developments over the weekend. 
 
Schools that will be affected by Sunday’s decision include some 160 kindergartens, elementary, middle and high schools governed by the Seoul Gangnam District Office of Education.
 
As of Friday, about one-thousand-300 schools nationwide had closed with 830 located in Gyeonggi Province and about 100 in the capital city.
 
The Education Ministry says that most of these schools excluding private kindergartens are expected to remain closed through next week while other schools are expected to decide before Monday.