SEOUL: South Korea's total coronavirus infections topped 10 million, or nearly 20 per cent of its population, authorities said on Wednesday , as surging severe cases and deaths increasingly put a strain on crematories and funeral homes nationwide.
The country's infection and death rates are still far below those recorded elsewhere, as almost 87 per cent of its 52 million residents are fully vaccinated and 63 per cent have received booster shots. Authorities have already boosted the combined daily cremation capacity from about 1,000 to 1,400 per day starting last week. But a large backlog of bodies and a long wait continued to be reported in the densely populated greater Seoul area, Son said.
The number of critically ill patients has been hovering above 1,000 over the past two weeks, but it could go up to 2,000 in early April, another health ministry official Park Hyang said.
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