Sect leader arrested in Korea over virus

Updated August 1 2020 - 1:41pm, first published 1:36pm
Lee Man-hee, leader of a sect linked to South Korea's largest COVID-19 outbreak, has been arrested.
Lee Man-hee, leader of a sect linked to South Korea's largest COVID-19 outbreak, has been arrested.

South Korean authorities have arrested the founder of a secretive Christian sect at the centre of the country's largest outbreak of COVID-19 infections for allegedly hiding crucial information from contact-tracers and other offences.

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