SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s daily count of recent coronavirus instances topped 8,000 for the first time on Tuesday, because the extremely infectious Omicron variant spreads quickly regardless of the current extension of strict social-distancing guidelines to gradual an infection.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency reported 8,571 instances for Monday, exceeding the earlier excessive https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/skorea-reports-7850-new-covid-19-cases-highest-daily-total-kdca-2021-12-15 posted in mid-December of seven,848.
The new file got here amid the spread of the extra transmissible Omicron variant which turned dominant final week.
(Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Christopher Cushing)
