S.Korea experts call for more COVID curbs as easygoing young fuel surge

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The number of severe COVID-19 cases in South Korea has doubled in three weeks, driven largely by young, unvaccinated people.

By Sangmi Cha

He said groups were skirted distancing rules despite a ban in the capital on gatherings of more than two people after 6 p.m. and many bars were operating through the night illegally.South Korea largely kept the virus at bay for the first year of the pandemic and its total tallies of 195,099 cases and 2,085 deaths are much lower than those of many other countries.

Nearly a quarter of serious cases are now in the 20-49 age group - 66 people compared with just 11 in that age cohort two months ago.

 

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