SEOUL (KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - South Korea's daily tally of new Covid-19 cases exceeded 300 for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday (Aug 29), with sporadic cluster infections in the Seoul metropolitan area continuing to raise alert.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - South Korea's daily tally of new Covid-19 cases exceeded 300 for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday , with sporadic cluster infections in the Seoul metropolitan area continuing to raise alert.
With the infection rate seeing no signs of slowing down, the government decided to extend Level 2 social distancing for one more week until Sept 6 in the Greater Seoul area, with stricter rules imposed starting Sunday, constituting a de facto"Level 2.5" on the three-tier system. Saturday's tally, which counts cases up to midnight Friday, marks a drop from 371 cases announced on Friday and 441 on Thursday. The daily number stayed above 300 for four consecutive days and in the triple digits for more than two weeks.
Of the new cases, the overwhelming majority were reported in Greater Seoul - 125 in Seoul, 104 in neighbouring Gyeonggi Province and 20 in Incheon.
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