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South Korea reports highest daily COVID-19 caseload in months

Kim said social distancing measures will be extended for the next few days and officials will consider whether to toughen existing rules as the country battles a fourth wave of the pandemic, fuelled by the highly contagious Delta variant.

Reuters

Seoul, South Korea

Wed, July 7, 2021 Published on Jul. 7, 2021 Published on 2021-07-07T09:29:50+07:00

People wearing masks stand before a zebra crossing on a cold winter day amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Seoul, South Korea, January 7, 2021. (REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji)

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outh Korea reported more than 1,200 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the highest daily count since late December, Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum told a COVID-19 response meeting on Wednesday.

The virus was spreading rapidly among unvaccinated people in their 20s and 30s, Kim said, advising people to get test preemptively.

Around 30 percent of the country's population of 52 million people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

The highest ever daily caseload reported by South Korea was 1,240, reported on Dec. 25, when the country was experiencing a third wave of the pandemic.