South Korea surpassed a new record for COVID-19 infection on Thursday when authorities thought it was reaching the peak of the wave caused by the Omicron variant.
The Korea Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported on Wednesday that 621,328 cases were found, of which only 62 were people arriving from abroad.
This figure shows a 55% increase from the previous day's data and 120% more than a week ago.
Record-breaking daily deaths were also reported at 429 (mortality rate was 0.14%), but the number of people with moderate to severe symptoms decreased to 1,159 in approximately 100 patients compared to Wednesday.
The Ministry of Health believes that this week or next week or next week will reach the peak of the current wave caused by the Omicron variant, and said Prime Minister Kim Bukum asked to review protocols for reclassifying COVID-19 as a less serious disease.
This allows healthcare services to have greater flexibility to combat more and more positive responses, which are cases with mild or mostly asymptomatic symptoms.
At the same time, the authorities have been gradually easing the restrictions in force for some time, and tomorrow there will be a meeting in which a decision on the extension or easing of the main measures (forced closure of the hotel business at 23:00 and a meeting of up to 6 people) is scheduled.
The Asian country, with 86.6% of the population having a double vaccination schedule and a booster dose of 62.8%, is one of the countries that managed the epidemic best, especially in the first place, and currently has about 8,250,000 infections and more than 11,400 deaths.
(Including information from EFE)
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