South Korea sees spike in COVID-19 cases amid vacations, spread of new variants

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South Korea posted a sharp increase in its coronavirus cases on Wednesday as it struggled to tame its fourth wave of infections amid the spread of ...

SEOUL: South Korea posted a sharp increase in its coronavirus cases on Wednesday as it struggled to tame its fourth wave of infections amid the spread of new virus variants strains.

Health authorities were concerned that people travelled about 6.4 per cent more last week compared with the week before, or about 34 per cent more than in early January, in the regions beyond the capital Seoul and its neighbouring areas, largely for summer vacations. The KDCA said on Tuesday it had detected South Korea's first two cases of the new Delta Plus COVID-19 variant, a sub-lineage of the Delta variant first identified in India.

 

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