South Korea has been hit by a new wave of infections caused by the omicron variant. | Font: EFE
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South Korea 180,803 new COVID-19 cases were reported today, the highest since last April, in the face of a new wave of coronavirus infections. omicron variant.
This is the highest figure recorded by an Asian country since April 13 last year, during the worst wave that South Korea suffered so far, 195,387 infections will be reported.
Data provided by the Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) represents an increase of about 20% compared to those infected who scored last week.
The government is hoping the summer break will impact this week’s data, though it hopes national hospitals can handle this volume of infections without a hitch as the critically ill bed occupancy rate is 43.7. %.
Pandemic in South Korea
Number of seriously ill COVID-19 was 469 today, up from 563 the day before, according to the KDCA.
With this data, South Koreawhich has a population of 51.7 million and has seen an increase in infections due to the micromicro variant BA.5 since July, with more than 21.6 million infections now reported since the start of the pandemic.
The Asian country today, in turn, recorded 42 new deaths associated with coronavirus. COVID-19, which brings the total number of deaths to 25,752, and the death rate is 0.12%. (EFE)
Source: RPP
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