South Korean health authorities warned on Friday that a cluster of coronavirus infections in the capital Seoul was threatening to spread after ...
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 324 new cases as of midnight Thursday, bringing the country's total to 16,670, with 309 deaths. It was the highest daily count since Mar 8.
The government is trying to gather the names of everyone who attended the rally, as well as the names of the drivers who drove attendees from the provinces, he said. South Korea was one of the first countries outside China to see an explosive spread of the new coronavirus, but intensive tracing and testing had brought infections under control and quelled a subsequent series of spikes.
For the third week in a row, thousands of South Korea doctors staged a strike on Friday to protest government plans to train new doctors.
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