Prime minister urges people to ‘resume normal daily activities’ after 36 people died and panic left economy strugglingSouth Korea has declared an end to a deadly outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) that killed 36 people, triggered widespread panic and stymied growth in Asia’s fourth-largest economy.Addressing a meeting of government officials in Seoul, the prime minister, Hwang Kyo-ahn, said the danger posed by what had been the biggest outbreak of the virus outside Saudi Arabia was over.