The article's 0.6 mortality rate seems to have been obtained by dividing the number of confirmed infections (6284) by the number of deaths so far (40) - source:

The article's 0.6 mortality rate seems to have been obtained by dividing the number of confirmed infections (6284) by the number of deaths so far (40) - source: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594... This is completely misleading, unless the other 6244 people have already recovered. The low death rate so far is because the detected illnesses have not yet run their course. Edit: The source above says that the number of people in South Korea who have recovered from the illness is... 135.