South Korea s disease control and prevention chief forecasts the daily new Covid-19 infections in the country may surpass the current 500 level this week. The basic reproduction number of the virus exceeded 1 last week, and stood at 1.0-7. So we re expecting to see daily infections higher than the current 500.
A reproduction number of over one means the disease is expanding in new population groups at an increasing rate while a R-naught of less than one means the spread is declining.
Health authorities also announced on Monday that they have discovered the first domestically transmitted case of the more transmissible South Africa Covid-19 variant in South Korea.
K-pop megastars BTS have landed straight at number one on the Japanese music charts with their new Japanese single Film out .
The boyband hit the top of the (Oh-lee-kon) Oricon Singles Chart on Saturday just a day after the song s release, with the track being downloaded more than 23,300 times.
The music video also got close to 30 million YouTube views within 24 hours of being uploaded. Film out is the first track to be released from the band s upcoming 23-song Japanese album BTS, THE BEST.
It comes out in Japan in mid-June.